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Macron, Le Pen to face off in final French vote

Centrist ex-banker comes out on top in first round of election and is now clear front-runner to defeat National Front leader.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

The campaigns of Emmanuel PAUL WALDIE in the country’s presidential elec- relief for EU backers. deal another blow to establish-Macron, left and Marine Le Pen will ERIC REGULY PARIS tion and he’s now the clear front- It comes only a few weeks after ment politics, after Brexit andbe a clash of visions for the country ................................................................ runner to defeat the National voters in the Netherlands turned the election of Mr. Trump in theover the next two weeks. French voters have handed the Front’s Marine Le Pen in a runoff away from an anti-immigrant United States. The candidates forLEFT: CHRISTOPHE ENA/ASSOCIATED PRESS; European Union a badly needed on May 7. movement and re-elected a pro- the traditional parties on theRIGHT: MICHEL SPRINGLER/ASSOCIATED PRESS boost, making centrist Emma- Their campaigns over the next EU government, although with a right and left – François Fillon of nuel Macron the favourite to two weeks will be a clash of vi- smaller mandate. And it will bol- the Republicans and Socialist become the country’s next presi- sions for the country, pitting Ms. ster the EU as it begins negotiat- Benoît Hamon – could do no bet- dent and forcing the far right Le Pen’s Donald Trump-style pro- ing Britain’s departure with ter than third and fifth respec- anti-globalist National Front to tectionism against Mr. Macron’s Prime Minister Theresa May, who tively, as voters appeared fed up regroup. endorsement of a pro-EU, more is expected to win a substantial with the status quo and opted for Mr. Macron came out on top in open economy. mandate in an election on June 8. untested leadership. the first round of voting Sunday His victory on Sunday will be a However, Sunday’s results did France, Page 5

After years of inconsistency, families of military suicides hope for answers Ottawa eager............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... to concludeRENATA D’ALIESIO WINNIPEG................................................................ looking forward to spending time with his family, and had even swers. The family heard plenty of rumours, but the military never ended his own life,” an anguished Ms. Cenerini said at China tradeG rant Palmer had a special Mother’s Day planned for his been scheming to play a prank on his mom. provided them with an official record of events. her Winnipeg home. She chokes on the word truth and breaks deal withinwife, Anita Cenerini. He organiz- Around 3 p.m. the next day, Pte. It also didn’t hold a board of into sobs. Her son’s suicide hased a weekend in Thunder Bay Welch’s family was waiting for inquiry to uncover what hap- left a deep void in the family and two yearswith all her children: three-year- him to arrive at the baggage car- pened to the young soldier and the lack of answers from the Ca-old Jacob, the youngest, who ousel when they were called to whether his experiences in Af- nadian Armed Forces has stunted ................................................................lived with the couple in Winni- the WestJet counter and led ghanistan contributed to his their healing.peg; Michelle, who was finishing upstairs to a small chapel. What downward spiral, even though, as The case exemplifies the debil- NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE BEIJINGher last year of high school in was going on, they nervously a Globe and Mail investigation itating distress endured by fami- ................................................................

Marathon, Ont.; and 22-year-old wondered. Two military workers discovered, Pte. Welch was the lies when they’re left in the dark. The Justin Trudeau governmentThomas, the eldest, an infantry broke the devastating news to first Canadian soldier to kill him- On Monday, military ombuds- intends to push forward tradesoldier nicknamed L’il Trooper them: Pte. Welch had taken his self after serving in the volatile man Gary Walbourne will release with China during the nextwho had recently returned from own life at the Petawawa base. operation. He died by suicide on recommendations from a collab- two years, saying it is urgentthe Afghanistan war. His mother and sister crumpled May 8, 2004, just three months orative review with the Forces that Canada do more with Private Thomas Welch sounded to the floor in tears. What hap- after returning from the war that call for improving how the the world’s second-largest econ-upbeat when he talked with his pened at the base? What went zone. military deals with bereaved fam- omy.mother over the phone the night wrong, Ms. Cenerini angrily “I don’t know any truth about ilies and for enhancing the board Canada has yet to formallybefore his flight to Thunder Bay asked. More than a dozen years his death. I don’t know what of inquiry system. launch free-trade negotiationsfrom Ottawa. He said he was later, she is still waiting for an- went so terribly wrong that he Military, Page 8 with China. A second round of exploratory talks will take place this week in Ottawa. Other Western countries haveRCMP labour trial to highlight concerns over wages, safety taken as long as a decade to conclude free-trade pacts with Beijing................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ But Ottawa is now indicatingCOLIN FREEZE The subtle but significant show lines have started to fade. Stoi- Moncton on Monday. The federal it expects to move quickly................................................................. of Mountie disgruntlement is in- cism, discipline and deference to labour department’s law-enforce- The Liberal government wantsEarly this month, RCMP Sergeant tended to draw attention to wages the chain of command have ment wing has charged its police- to “demonstrate progress in ourChris Backus and his colleagues and working conditions in the always characterized the RCMP force cousin with four counts of first mandate,” Finance Ministerpurchased some neon pink and national police force. Pay for po- rank-and-file. having failed to provide patrol of- Bill Morneau said in an inter-orange duct tape. The West Coast lice officers has stagnated in the Yet this is changing as Canada’s ficers with sufficient skills, equip- view.Mounties stuck it on top of the RCMP, even as paycheques in big- biggest police force wrestles with ment or weaponry to defend “That’s certainly the kind oftraditional yellow pant stripes city forces have ballooned. stalled salaries, the looming pros- against a gunman who shot three urgency we bring to these dis-running the length of their legs. In those cities, it is not unheard pect of a police labour union and Mounties dead in 2014. Should cussions.”With that, they helped kick-start a of for police to alter their uni- ongoing officer-safety issues star- the RCMP be convicted of this it Though Canada’s fixed elec-workplace protest that spread like forms when they want to make a kly highlighted by a Labour Code could pay millions of dollars in tion dates can be overruled bywildfire among uniform-wearing statement. But for Mounties, it’s prosecution. fines. the Prime Minister, the nextMounties from coast to coast. only recently that long-standing The RCMP will be put on trial in RCMP, Page 13 election would normally be expected in 2019. Mr. Morneau declined to INSIDE define what “progress” might look like. Canada and China2017 Stanley have agreed to double trade by 2025, but Mr. Morneau saidCup Playoffs Ottawa is not wedded to the ................................................................ idea of a single, sweeping tradeOttawa advances The Globe’s SecureDrop service deal.with overtime victory provides a way to securely share Some Canadian academics andThe Ottawa Senators head to information with our journalists. business leaders have suggestedRound 2 after beating the tgam.ca/securedrop Ottawa may be better to pursueBoston Bruins 3-2 in overtime. a series of sector-by-sectorRoy MacGregor reports. agreements that could be moreGlobe Sports quickly set in place. “That is exactly what the discussion at the exploratory level is considering. So we’re looking at those alternatives in terms of approach,” Mr. Mor- neau said. China, Page 6

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Toronto addresses underweight bread scandal

TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY

April 24, 1867 6 In a consumer-friendly crackdown, Toronto’s inspector of

weights and measures raided shops, bakeries and delivery trucks and confis- cated 564 loaves of bread that were below the standard weight. The Globe declared that the seizure made it obvious “the habit of giving light weight is of common occurrence” with some bakers in the city. “The widow and orphan whose utmost energies are scarcely able to sustain life with bread at its present rate, have a right to demand that they at least receive the equivalent of their money. The mechanic and labourer have equal reason to complain at such robbery.” Even a rich man who can afford to pay “has equal right to honest dealing,” the paper said, “though in his case the act may not look quite so mean.” The underweight bread was taken to a police station, and most was lat- er distributed to charitable institutions. – Richard Blackwell

Most school boards today can’t More duty-free cheese is coming When it comes to assisted dying, Marie Saint Pierre even govern themselves, let to Canada. But this isn’t about we must recognize that not all alone students in their charge. cheaper slices of Camembert. suffering is physical. Opinion, Page 11 Report on Business, Page 1 Life & Arts, Page 1 Sarah Pacini ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................

A man drives an ATV through a

flooded residential area in the town of Rigaud, Que., west of Montreal, Sunday following serious flooding in the region. GRAHAM HUGHES/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Top court asked to soften ruling on delay

Supreme Court hearing for accused drug trafficker to include appeal from federal prosecutors for tolerance in some delayed cases.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

SEAN FINE JUSTICE WRITER Supreme Court’s new time limit courts and dismissed cases. It is statement of facts contained cutors can set trial dates in supe-................................................................ is exactly half that – 30 months, unlikely that a ruling will be errors, and so did a judge’s pre- rior court, the cases are alreadyLess than a year after it set new from charge to completion, for made in time to influence discus- trial ruling. Based on those beyond the 30-month time limits.time limits for criminal trials, the trials in Superior Court. But the sions in that meeting, though the errors, Mr. Cody’s defence coun- Ontario and Manitoba are tryingSupreme Court of Canada is court also said it would be unfair court occasionally rules on the sel fought an extended battle to to persuade Ottawa to drop mostbeing asked by federal prosecut- to apply the new rules to cases same day as the hearing. have the charges thrown out. or all preliminary inquiries.ors and several provinces to soft- that were already well under way; For the court, the Cody case is a The case shows the difficulty The situation in the Cody caseen a ruling that has resulted in it provided for a blend of new test of its resolve to transform the judges are having in interpreting echoes that of the Supremefour charges of murder being and old rules. justice system. In Jordan, the the Supreme Court’s rules for Court’s last major attempt tothrown out for unreasonable Two months before Mr. Cody’s court’s majority in the 5-4 ruling cases in the system before Jordan. crack down on court delay. Indelays. trial was to begin, he applied to was scathing about a “culture of Two appeal court judges said the 1990, it set time guidelines in R v. At a hearing Tuesday in the case the judge for a stay, saying his complacency and delay” in the actual delay had been just 16 Askov, resulting in nearly 50,000of James Cody, an accused drug right to a timely trial had been justice system, and said judges, months, after subtracting for criminal charges being throwntrafficker from Newfoundland violated. The trial judge agreed defence lawyers, prosecutors and delay that was permitted under out in Ontario alone; then in R v.and Labrador, the court will hear and dismissed the charges. But government all bore responsibil- the old rules, and delay caused by Morin, 18 months later, the courta plea from the federal prosecu- the Newfoundland and Labrador ity. the defence. By contrast, a dis- eased off, allowing for more flex-tion service for tolerance of slow- Court of Appeal, in a 2-1 decision, “Unless you admit a case has senting judge found there were ibility. And the court was clear inmoving cases that entered the said the delay was reasonable been in the system too long, you 39 months of delay. (The trial Jordan that it did not wish to seesystem before the ruling last July and ordered a new trial. Mr. Cody will never get past the ‘culture of judge ruled before Jordan. The a repeat of the chaos caused by– in a case known as R v. Jordan – appealed to the Supreme Court to complacency,’ ” said Ottawa law- appeal court ruled after Jordan, Askov, which is why it allowed forcreated the new limits. restore the trial judge’s ruling. yer Michael Crystal, who is repre- and called the defence and the old rules still to be in force to Five provinces are intervening The federal prosecution service senting Mr. Cody before the Crown lawyers in to make argu- some extent.in the case in support of a more argues that five years was reason- Supreme Court. “It’s only when ments about how to apply Jor- But the Criminal Lawyers’ Asso-permissive view of delay. Three of able in Mr. Cody’s case, under the you say too long is too long – five dan.) ciation is urging the Supremethem – Ontario, Alberta and Que- old rules. years is too long – that you will be The Jordan ruling sparked an Court to stay the course, sayingbec – have seen judges throw out “If the Crown had known that uncomfortable. It’s only when uproar. In Alberta, prosecutors that governments and the mediamurder charges over delay, in- the law was going to be changed, you have a target of 30 months dropped 200 cases – including have exaggerated the falloutcluding a first-degree murder it might have acted differently; it that you become uncomfortable drunk driving and assaulting-po- from Jordan, and that what ischarge against a Montreal man cannot now go back and change and you have to become more lice charges – saying that they did happening is stimulating thedismissed on Friday, and a sec- behaviour that was reasonable efficient.” not have enough prosecutors to change sought by the court.ond-degree murder charge under the former law,” federal Mr. Cody was charged in Janu- handle them all, and had to save “The ‘problem’ underlyingagainst another Montreal man prosecutors, who handle drug ary, 2010, one of 13 people their resources for serious cases. government calls for flexibilitywhose wife died when her throat cases, said in a legal filing to the accused of being part of an al- In Quebec, where the govern- does not exist,” the group says inwas slit. Manitoba and British Co- Supreme Court. leged drug-trafficking ring be- ment is spending an extra $175- a legal filing. “The early evidencelumbia are the other two prov- The hearing in the Cody case tween British Columbia and million over four years to hire is that Jordan is working the wayinces intervening. comes as the federal and provin- Newfoundland and Labrador. more judges, prosecutors and it was supposed to – as a vehicle The Cody case was scheduled, cial justice ministers prepare for Complications arose during pro- court workers, Justice Minister for measured change. It started aafter multiple delays, to take five an emergency meeting on Friday ceedings. His initial lawyer was Stéphanie Vallée told The Globe conversation about delay withoutyears to come to trial. The to look for solutions to clogged named to the bench. An agreed and Mail that by the time prose- drastic results.”

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Study finds gender imbalance in births

Analysis shows preference for boys among Indo-Canadian women does not diminish, regardless of how long they’ve lived in Canada.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

KAREN HOWLETT 2014, and who immigrated to

................................................................ Canada between 1985 and 2012.Fewer girls than boys are born to Mothers who gave birth to twinsIndian women who immigrate to or triplets were excluded. TheCanada, a skewed pattern driven study also looked at the mother’sby families whose mother tongue birth place, her mother tongueis Punjabi, according to a new and how long she had been instudy. Canada. One of the most surprising find- Among all the mothers havingings of the study, to be published their third child, nearly twice asMonday in the Journal of Obstet- many males were born comparedrics and Gynecology Canada, is with females if the previous twothat the preference for boys does children were girls. The ratio wasnot diminish, regardless of how even higher among womenlong women from India have whose mother tongue was Punja-lived in Canada. bi: 240 boys to 100 girls. The ratio “It’s counterintuitive,” said Mar- of males to females did not differcelo Urquia, a research scientist according to when womenat the University of Manitoba’s arrived in Canada.Centre for Health Policy and lead In India, the ratio of male toauthor of the study. “We know female newborns varies consid-that the longer immigrants are in erably, with several northernCanada, the more likely they are states consistently showing num-to align to the host country.” bers that favour boys, the study But for many Indian immi- says. The practice of sex selectiongrants who express a strong is not widespread across Indiadesire for sons, the study found, but it is prevalent, said Kripa Sek-the practice of sex selection re- har, executive director of themains entrenched. Women who School girls listen to a speaker during a rally in New Delhi. The practice of sex selection is not widespread across South Asian Women’s Centre inalready have two female children India, said Kripa Sekhar, of the South Asian Women’s Centre in Toronto. PRAKASH SINGH/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Toronto. “Many members of theare most at risk for abortions in community welcome a girl child,”the second trimester, when par- Urquia said. Across the globe, by India’s Punjab province, where customs and celebrate the birth she said. “It’s a small minority ofents can learn the sex of the comparison, the odds of having a she grew up, but she was sur- of girls. In Brampton, Ont., where the community in Canada thatfetus. The study builds on pre- boy over a girl are slightly higher: prised to learn that it also hap- 40 per cent of the population is still practises this.”vious research led by Dr. Urquia 107 boys for every 100 girls. pens in Canada. South Asian, one hospital has A woman has a fundamentalthat found a deficit in Canada of The preference for boys among Ms. Brar, who immigrated to started handing out Ladoos, a right in Canada to decide wheth-more than 4,400 girls over two many Indian immigrants reveals Canada with her family when she sugary Indian sweet, when a baby er to have an abortion, anddecades. underlying gender inequities and was 14, remembers the traditional girl is born, Ms. Brar said. Tradi- should not come under pressure The latest study shows that will not change without interven- celebration called a Lohri in India tionally in India, Ladoos were just from a spouse or other familywomen born in India who al- tion, Dr. Urquia said. for celebrating the birth of a boy. for moms who delivered boys. members to deliver a male child,ready have two daughters gave Amanpreet Brar, a third-year “It was rare to hear about a The study analyzed 46,834 birth Ms. Sekhar said.birth to 192 baby boys in Ontario medical student at the University girl’s birth being celebrated,” she records for Indian-born mothers “This is an issue of choice thatfor every 100 girls. The sex ratios of Toronto who worked on the said. who delivered up to three live is taken away from a woman,”are so distorted, they cannot be study, said gender-selection abor- But some steps have been taken births in Ontario hospitals be- she said. “In many ways it is veryexplained by natural causes, Dr. tion was talked about openly in in Canada to end gender-based tween April, 1993, and March, abusive.”

KELLY GRANT HEALTH REPORTER last century, when the then- The task force’s study, pub- He was one of five experts Philpott, who assumed the port-................................................................ unknown hepatitis-C virus lished Monday in the Canadian asked to review the draft recom- folio the following year whenHealthy baby boomers should spread via the reusable glass Medical Association Journal mendations who later withdrew her Liberal government wasnot be tested for hepatitis C and metal syringes common in (CMAJ,) argues it would be their names in protest from the elected, said she supports theunless they have risk factors the medical world at the time. wrong to test all baby boomers acknowledgments section of the task force’s guidelines.such as a history of intravenous “It makes no sense to me. Why when plenty of them would ei- CMAJ paper. “They’re actually very much indrug use, according to a federal wouldn’t you want to find carri- ther fail to qualify for publicly The Canadian Liver Founda- line with many other jurisdic-task force whose new recom- ers of this virus?” said Michael funded treatment or die of other tion has been urging everyone tions, including the United King-mendations are being excoriated Houghton, a hepatitis virologist causes before developing the born between 1945 and 1975 to dom,” she said in an interviewby liver doctors, including the at the University of Alberta and end-stage liver disease that be tested for hepatitis C since with The Globe. “They’re basedCanadian who discovered hepa- the leader of the team that iden- chronic hepatitis-C infection can shortly after the United States on what would be the best waytitis C. tified hepatitis C in 1989. “To cause. Centers for Disease Control and for us, given our Canadian con- The Canadian Task Force on me, it’s a classic whitewash.” “In a publicly funded system Prevention (CDC) made a simi- text, to most rapidly identifyPreventive Health Care, an influ- The quarrel over hepatitis-C like ours in Canada, resource lar recommendation in 2012. people who are as yet undiag-ential panel that crafts guide- screening is about more than use is an important considera- (The Canadian Liver Foundation nosed.”lines for family physicians, on the ordering of a simple blood tion,” said Dr. Grad, also a pro- receives some funding from Since the 2014 draft wasMonday released its first-ever test. The fight is really about fessor at McGill University. companies that make direct-act- kiboshed, the true prices ofrecommendations on screening how best to use the limited “Especially when you realize ing antivirals, but the charity direct-acting antivirals havefor hepatitis C, a virus that can money available in Canada’s that there are baby boomers in says the industry does not influ- dropped significantly, thanks tolurk silently for decades before public health-care system. Canada who’ve already been ence its positions.) a confidential pricing deal thatwreaking serious damage on the Roland Grad, the Montreal identified as hepatitis-C positive Dr. Sherman said the Public the provincial, territorial andliver. family doctor who led the task who have been waiting many Health Agency of Canada federal drug plans reached with Most of the task force’s advice force’s working group, said the years for treatment that they do (PHAC), which funds the task three pharmaceutical companiesis uncontroversial: The panel panel decided against testing not qualify for. We already have force, was preparing to follow in February.suggests that blood tests for baby boomers for two reasons: a backlog.” the CDC’s lead in 2014 when it The secret, cheaper prices havehepatitis C be reserved for those the lack of high-quality evidence As many as 245,000 Canadians encountered resistance from already led two provinces, On-at elevated risk of contracting for such screening in the med- have chronic hepatitis-C infec- provincial governments worried tario and British Columbia, tothe virus, namely people who ical literature; and the prospect tion; an estimated 44 per cent of about the high cost of the new say that by next year they willhave used injection drugs, spent that more screening would lead them don’t know it. direct-acting antivirals, which extend public coverage of direct-time in prison, received blood to more demand for an expen- Morris Sherman, a hepatologist have a sticker price as high as acting antivirals to all hepati-products before 1992 or immi- sive new generation of drugs at the University Health Net- $100,000 for a three-month tis-C patients, regardless of thegrated from countries where that can cure hepatitis C in up work in Toronto and the chair- course of curative treatment. severity of their disease.hepatitis C is more prevalent to 95 per cent of cases. man of the Canadian Liver In a statement to The Globe Dr. Grad said that if morethan it is in Canada. Right now, provincial drug Foundation, called the task and Mail, PHAC confirmed a provinces move to cover direct- But the task force rejected plans only cover the medica- force’s guidelines “a dreadful draft recommendation to test acting antivirals for all patientscalls from hepatologists to go tions, known as direct-acting an- document” that will hurt Cana- people born between 1950 and with chronic hepatitis-C infec-further and screen all the baby tivirals, for chronic hepatitis-C da’s commitment to ending hep- 1970 was indeed circulated in tion, the task force may recon-boomers who may have been patients with serious liver scar- atitis as a public-health threat 2014 and then withdrawn. sider its recommendations inexposed in the middle of the ring. by 2030. Federal Health Minister Jane the future.

GLORIA GALLOWAY OTTAWA tary to Mr. Mulcair, said he Liberals in the coming election. “I................................................................ expects Mr. Stogran to shake think there is a real sense that theThe collegial race to lead the fed- things up. NDP needs to find its way,” sheeral NDP received an injection of “His approach is counter to type said. But “if people are expectingdrama this week with the for an NDP candidate at this the same kind of dynamics as theannouncement that former veter- stage,” Mr. Belanger said. “He has Conservative race, I don’t thinkans ombudsman Pat Stogran is a no-nonsense approach, he they will find it here.”now a candidate. comes from a military back- Mr. Caron, who says he has dis- The New Democrats need ground, he’s been known to tinguished himself from the oth-something to turn the eyes of Ca- speak his mind and he will not ers by proposing a basicnadian voters their way as they hold back. That’s not his style. So minimum income for all Cana-languish below 20 per cent in that might force some of the oth- dians, does believe the discussionpublic opinion polls. And Mr. Sto- er candidates to take a clearer will get more heated. “I expectgran, whose frenetic patterns of stand on some of the issues.” the next debates will be morespeech and apparent lack of inter- The four MPs who are in the robust, indeed more rough,” Mr.est in sticking to the NDP script, race have mixed views about Caron said. But “we are all in thiscould stir the placid waters. whether the gloves will come off together. We know what it means The contest to succeed Tom before October. to be NDP, to be a social democratMulcair is in a bit of a holding pat- Mr. Angus has been consulting and that is why there is so muchtern as the party waits for the with Canadians across the coun- agreement.”British Columbia election on May try and says his campaign will There is a fifth candidate in the9 and for the federal Conserva- Former veterans ombudsman Pat Stogran says he has joined the NDP focus on the “growing economic race named Ibrahim Bruno El-tives to elect their leader on May leadership race to change the current system. SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS divide.” The first debates were Khoury, a Montreal resident who17. There is hope among New about establishing the ground is relatively unknown in NDP cir-Democrats that, by the end of things?” seat as an MP, he said most politi- work, he said. Going forward, cles and who says he wants tonext month, their leadership The debates that were held in cians are “first followers” – sup- “there’s going to be a lot more make life better for Canadians.fight will gain a national spot- Ottawa and Montreal saw the four porters whose job is to make a testing of ideas.” Mr. El-Khoury’s entry is unlikelylight. main contenders – MPs Charlie leader’s ideas credible. Mr. Julian says he has differen- to affect the established tone. Other candidates are spending Angus, Niki Ashton, Guy Caron “I don’t want to be a first follow- tiated himself from the others by Mr. Strogran’s might.this time quietly touring the and Peter Julian – chat congenial- er,” Mr. Stogran said. “I’ve got to taking a hard line against the Kin- And there is still time for othercountry and trying to lock up sup- ly about social-democratic values be in charge because I want to der Morgan and Energy East pipe- leadership hopefuls to declareport at the local level. But Mr. Sto- and offer many words of agree- break the system. I want to set the lines. “I know the other their intentions.gran is eager to get into the fray. ment about each other’s policies conditions for success of the NDP candidates, I know how effective New Democrats pushed for a “Did you see the two debates?” and positions. There were no so that there are no longer two they have been. So I think there is long campaign to encourage out-he asked at a news conference hard hits like those dished out at parties [the Liberals and the Con- an enormous mutual respect that siders to jump in, said Mr. Belan-last week to announce his candi- similar Conservative events. servatives] controlling the agen- is there, but there are clear issues ger. “There is one now. He is adacy. “This is one of the reasons Mr. Stogran is unlikely to adhere da.” that are different.” serious candidate. So it will be in-why I actually made the plunge. I to that pattern. When asked why Karl Belanger, the former inter- Ms. Ashton says she has been teresting to see how all these peo-actually reached out to the party he chose to run for the NDP im national director of the party the only candidate to say the NDP ple react now that their wish hasand said how can I interrupt leadership before trying to win a and the former principal secre- must stay well to the left of the been granted.”T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L • M O N D AY , A P R I L 2 4 , 2 0 1 7 O NEWS • A5

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France: The EU-backing Macron now has support of both Republicans and Socialists.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

9 Mr. Macron, a 39-year old

former banker, started hispolitical movement, called En the EU are headed for change. Mr. Macron has other advan- tages heading into the second nomic policies, where he has not been specific about just how far he would go in easing the coun-Marche!, only a year ago but, round. The country’s economy is try’s rigid labour laws.with a centre-right platform, he showing signs of turning around, Mr. Spiro said the fact Ms. Lemanaged to draw support from something he is likely to exploit Pen and far-left candidate Jean-disaffected voters on all sides. as he and others have painted Luc Mélenchon, who is also a “In one year, we have changed Ms. Le Pen’s economic policies Euroskeptic, secured nearly 45the face of French politics,” Mr. as reckless, particularly her call per cent of the vote “is a damn-Macron told hundreds of sup- to pull France out of the euro. ing indictment of the Europeanporters in Paris. He added that And while Mr. Macron’s support project and bodes ill for thehe planned to campaign on a has remained largely steady dur- prospects for meaningful fiscalmessage of optimism and hope ing the campaign, Ms. Le Pen and structural reform in France.”“for our country and for has been slipping, falling from With Mr. Macron and his pro-Europe.” He also railed against as high as 27 per cent just a few Europe agenda the winner in thewhat he called 30 years of rule weeks ago. Last week’s terrorist first round, all eyes now to turnby the two mainstream parties, attack in Paris, which saw one to Italy, the euro zone’s thirdsaying the country was ready for police officer killed and two oth- biggest economy, as the biggesta change to something different. ers injured, also did not appear threat to the European project. Mr. Macron certainly has the to boost Ms. Le Pen’s support as Italy is seeing its own populistedge in the second round. Polls many had expected. surge. Its Five Star Movementgive him a big lead over Ms. Le However, Mr. Macron still faces (M5S), the main opposition par-Pen and he now has the backing Supporters of Emmanuel Macron cheer the centrist’s lead in the first round some major challenges. France’s ty in parliament and the biggestof the main parties as well as of French presidential voting on Sunday. THIBAULT CAMUS/ASSOCIATED PRESS economic recovery has been elected populist party in the EU,Prime Minister Bernard Caze- meagre and unemployment re- is leading in the polls and couldneuve and one of the largest jected to get 23.7 per cent of the on me a huge responsibility to mains nearly 10 per cent, and far form the next government – antrade unions. Investors also first-round vote by the pollster defend the French nation, its higher in many regions. There’s election must be held by thisexpect him to win handily and Ifop-Fiducial; Ms. Le Pen was unity, its security, its culture, its also growing antagonism toward time next year. The latest pollsthe value of the euro soared im- given 21.7 per cent. prosperity and its indepen- the EU and its many rules that put M5S at 31.5 per cent againstmediately after Sunday’s results. Ms. Le Pen has also already dence,” she told supporters in some say have made the econo- 25 per cent for the ruling Demo-For the markets, “the election is won more votes in a presidential Lille. my worse. Ms. Le Pen has drawn cratic Party.more or less over,” said Nicholas race than her father, party foun- She made it clear she will con- support in parts of the country For now, though, Mr. Macron’sSpiro, a partner at London’s Lau- der Jean-Marie Le Pen, who took tinue to campaign on her hit hard by the economic down- supporters hailed his win as aressa Advisory. “This is the result 18 per cent of the vote in the France-first agenda that calls for turn, notably in the north. Mr. vote of confidence in Europe.investors were expecting. Mar- second round in 2002. And her a halt to all immigration, a refer- Macron is also still largely They pointed out that, amongkets will rightly treat this as a success could translate into endum on France’s membership unknown to many voters. He the 11 presidential candidates, hestark choice between the anti- more seats in June when the in the European Union and has never run for elective office has been the only one backing aEuropean far right and the pro- country holds parliamentary withdrawing the country from and has spent much of his stronger EU. “Victory for Mr. Ma-European centre and will now elections. the euro. Mr. Macron will coun- career as an investment banker. cron will be a victory forbe even more convinced that She conceded nothing on Sun- ter with his liberal platform of Mr. Macron “is a mystery,” said Europe,” said Claude PosternakMacron will win.” day, claiming victory and insist- economic reforms, open borders political scientist Dominique as he stood in the middle of a But there are no guarantees ing that she was the only true and improvements to France’s Moïsi. “On the surface, he is the sea of people cheering and wav-and Ms. Le Pen didn’t lose by anti-establishment candidate social safety net. But he, too, will best of the best. Everything you ing French and EU flags at Mr.much on Sunday. In a race that who offers France “the great al- be calling for changes to the EU, want, he has it.” But his policies Macron’s campaign celebration.was too close to call up to the ternative.” meaning that no matter who remain vague on many points, “It’s a victory for Europe, for alast minute, Mr. Macron was pro- “This result is historic. It puts wins in two weeks, France and he added. That includes his eco- new Europe.”

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day it was ready to sink a U.S. air- ENDS THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2017craft carrier to demonstrate itsmilitary might, as two Japanesenavy ships joined a U.S. carriergroup for exercises in the west-ern Pacific. U.S. President Donald Trumpordered the USS Carl Vinson car-rier strike group to sail to watersoff the Korean peninsula in re-sponse to rising tension over theNorth’s nuclear and missile tests,and its threats to attack the Unit-ed States and its Asian allies. OUR “Our revolutionary forces arecombat-ready to sink a U.S. LOWESTnuclear-powered aircraft carrierwith a single strike,” the Rodong PRICESSinmun, the newspaper of theNorth’s ruling Workers’ Party, OF THEsaid in a commentary. – Reuters................................................................ SEASONMexico will pay forwall ‘later’: Trump................................................................

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Juggling giants is Trudeau’s task on trade

When it comes to negotiations, PM must first land an agreement with unpredictable U.S. while keeping a restless China interested.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

with China to try to reach a deal

in say, five or six years. The prob- lem will come if Beijing is impa- tient for a quicker deal. Politically, it might be tricky for Canada to move to close a dealCAMPBELL CLARK with China before it has one withcclark@globeandmail.com Mr. Trump, whose administration has claimed that NAFTA creates a................................................................ back door for goods from China.

C hinese officials are back in

Ottawa this week to resumeexploratory talks on free trade. The two sets of talks could leak into each other. Mr. Trump’s Commerce Secretary, WilburBut the challenge of Donald Ross, said the United States wouldTrump means that, when it like to see NAFTA’s rules of origincomes to trade negotiations, it’s tightened so that cars made inAmerica first. Canada and Mexico cannot have There’s a lot of push and pull on such a high percentage of partsPrime Minister Justin Trudeau and materials made elsewhere – aover trade, and not only from Mr. hint at the Trump administra-Trump’s vague complaints last tion’s desire to squeeze out Chi-week about Canada acting unfair- nese steel and other materialsly on dairy, lumber and energy. used in North American cars.China’s ambassador to Canada, But above all, Mr. Trudeau’sLu Shaye, was also talking about government just can’t devote itswhat his country wants – speed- It might be politically tricky for Ottawa to close a trade deal with Beijing before it has one with Washington, as the political capital to closing a dealing up exploratory talks to get to a Trump administration has claimed that NAFTA creates a back door for goods from China. KEVIN FRAYER/GETTY IMAGES with China until U.S. trade is rela-trade deal faster. tively secure. A trade deal with While Mr. Trump is making trick in juggling the world’s two of U.S. trade, he created a cabinet to hold off on investment. Cana- China is a big sell, and the Liberalscountries wonder about how the biggest economies is keeping the committee on U.S. relations and dian business wants that uncer- would have to overcome a mixedUnited States might disrupt trade, focus on the United States with- dispatched ministers to meet po- tainty dispelled. bag of public fears – lost jobs, Chi-the Chinese see an opportunity, out dropping China. litical players across the United But Beijing expects attention, nese state corporations buyingportraying themselves as the new If it wasn’t for Mr. Trump, Mr. States. Nothing is bigger in Otta- too. Canada apparently has an op- Canadian assets, spying in sensi-anti-protectionists, and seeking Trudeau’s government might be wa. portunity to gain better access to tive industries and just agreeingto lock up some trading arrange- strategizing right now about sell- For Canadian business, the Unit- a major growth market, and the to anything with a big, authoritar-ments. They have a trade agree- ing a coming trade deal with Chi- ed States is the undeniable priori- business community doesn’t ian state. The Liberals are con-ment with Australia, and deals na to the ambivalent Canadian ty. U.S. trade barriers could want Mr. Trudeau’s government sumed now with the presentwith other Western countries, electorate. But Ottawa’s political devastate exports. They’d under- to spurn it. danger of a U.S. trade disruption.such as Canada, would send a sig- focus has been the all-consuming mine the decades-old Canadian The good news is there’s no real That’s why Mr. Trudeau willnal to the world. Mr. Lu made it question of dealing with Mr. pitch to investors that setting up a conflict between the two sets of have to employ some diplomaticsound like Beijing is in a hurry. Trump and his potential threat to business in this country provides talks at this stage. Exploratory arts to keep the Chinese interest- Canada can talk to both the Canadian access to the U.S. mar- access to a big North American talks with China are about what ed, perhaps with interim agree-United States and China at the ket. market. Bank of Canada senior sort of things will be on the table. ments, if Beijing is really in a rushsame time, of course. But when it Mr. Trudeau shuffled his cabinet deputy governor Carolyn Wilkins If that continues for a couple of – he’ll need to rag the puck withcomes to closing a deal, the Unit- to put a new Foreign Affairs Min- has suggested the uncertainty years, Ottawa can try to conclude China while he closes a deal withed States must come first. So the ister, Chrystia Freeland, in charge over trade is leading some firms a U.S. deal, then start full talks Mr. Trump......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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China: Beijing has pushed for Ottawa to move quickly on free-trade talks.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

9 His government wants ways

“to deepen the relationship,focused on how we can build Morneau himself was in Washing- ton late last week to speak with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. the two countries. Beijing has pushed for Ottawa to move quickly. China’s ambas- That request involved a Chi- nese desire to buy Canadian com- panies, Mr. Morneau said. But its demands for entrance into other countries come as it con- tinues to maintain its own heavymore jobs – in both places, of But, he said, Canada is also sador in Ottawa, Lu Shaye, said “There have been a number of barriers to foreign companies,course – and that will mean that “moving ahead” with China. last week, “we hope to speed up” acquisition opportunities from who are either barred fromwe are going to be looking at Mr. Morneau and International exploratory talks, even as his China to Canada, and they are investing in many sectors, orplaces in our economy where we Trade Minister François-Philippe government lays a list of just stating that they are interest- kept away by prejudicial treat-can have the biggest impact.” Champagne will both fly to Bei- demands at Canada’s feet. China ed in that sector,” he said. ment. He did not rule out a full- jing this week for the first round wants Ottawa to drop national- Canada’s response: “We always In January, the Americanfledged comprehensive trade of a new Canada-China economic security tests for takeovers by its have to look out for our own best Chamber of Commerce in Chinadeal, but said he wants to be and financial strategic dialogue, companies, and give its state interests, especially in national released an annual survey of its“practical” and move at a pace meeting with Chinese Vice-Pre- firms unfettered access to the Ca- security areas,” Mr. Morneau said. membership, which includesthat allows Ottawa to show some mier Wang Yang on Tuesday. The nadian economy. But, he added, “We are an open multinational giants who haveresults. high-level meetings are expected Last week, Chinese Premier Li trading nation and are looking done business in China for dec- The Trudeau government’s Chi- to recur annually, and though Keqiang directly asked Mr. Tru- for ways to create mutual advan- ades. More than 80 per cent ofna ambitions come at a time its they are not directly related to deau, in a phone call, to “relax tage.” those surveyed said they feel lesstrade negotiators and diplomatic free-trade talks, they are expect- the restrictions on high-tech China has in recent months welcome in China than in theleadership have been heavily ed to play a role in setting broad- exports to China,” Chinese state attempted to cast itself as a lead- past, citing rising protectionismfocused on the United States. Mr. er economic priorities between media reported. ing champion of globalization. as one of the reasons.

THE MEDIA AS OPPOSITION: led to man’s acquittal: review COVERING TRUMP IN A POST-TRUTH ERA In .....................................................................................................................................

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with ADINA BRESGE HALIFAX and the woman’s legs were rest- seekers. In their ﬁrst live joint appearance, these renowned, ................................................................ ing on the back of the front buck- award-winning journalists and authors will discuss the The stereotype of the “promiscu- et seats. pressing need to apply constant, critical pressure on an ous party girl” may have factored Mr. Al-Rawi’s pants were American president who threatens the very fabric of ONE EVENING into the acquittal of a Halifax cab undone at the waist and his zip- democracy, journalism, civil society and the truth. TWO TALKS driver accused of sexually assaulting a woman in his car, a per was down a couple of inches, the officer said. Evidence of the review of the case suggests. woman’s DNA was found on Mr. In a draft paper submitted to Al-Rawi’s upper lip, but the ori- Canadian Bar Review, Dalhousie gin of the bodily fluid couldn’t be law professor Elaine Craig says identified. Justice Gregory Lenehan de- Prof. Craig suggests the judge served much of the widespread may have been influenced by backlash he received following defence lawyer Luke Craggs’s sug- the acquittal of taxi driver Bas- gestion that the woman becomes sam Al-Rawi in March. a different “type of person” when While falling short of judicial she consumes large quantities of misconduct, Prof. Craig contends alcohol, including invoking Jekyll the Nova Scotia provincial judge and Hyde to contrast the wom- GLENN GREENWALD NAOMI KLEIN AMY GOODMAN JEREMY SCAHILL erred in his assessment of the an’s behaviour in her drunk and case, but also suggests that the sober states. 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Folio: The Unremembered

Anita Cenerini holds a portrait of her

son Private Thomas Welch, with Pte. Welch’s stepfather, Grant Palmer, left, and brother, Jacob Cenerini- Palmer, at their Winnipeg home in October, 2016. Pte. Welch died by suicide in May, 2004, three months after returning from Afghanistan. LYLE STAFFORD/THE GLOBE AND MAIL

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Military: Soldier’s mother knew a military investigation had taken place, but was never told..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

9 “Having these boards of

inquiry, especially whenthere is a death of a military Several families of soldiers lost to suicide have told The Globe they felt marginalized by the man with a cool head. He worked hard and rarely com- plained, even when performing his term expired on Aug. 27, 2004. But he felt pressure to staymember, can at the end of the inquiry process – and even tar- I would hear one thing and mundane tasks, his military and was torn by the decision heday save lives. There are lessons geted for blame in some cases. then go to another person mates said after his death. Small had to make. In fact, paperworklearned. They are incredibly Unlike a provincial coroner’s in stature, he was the L’il Troop- recommending his military con-important,” he said. inquest, military inquiries are and hear something else. It er with a big heart and subtle tract be extended was presented Ms. Cenerini suspects her son closed to the public and media. just made it unbearable. sense of humour. He often to him in Afghanistan. A memo ................................................................was struggling with post-trau- played with the Afghan children dated Nov. 6, 2003, states: “Pte.matic stress disorder. He was Pte. Welch grew up in Manitou- Anita Cenerini who trailed behind the soldiers Welch is a very good soldier andconstantly angry and agitated wadge, a remote northwestern Private Thomas Welch’s mother during patrols of Kabul. He gave valued member of his platoon.after his return from Afghani- Ontario township surrounded by the kids Werther’s caramels and He is [a] team player who goesstan and was haunted by night- vast forests speckled with lakes. other candies that his mom out of his way to ensure thatmares. His relationship with his A gold rush surged through the sent in a steady stream of care platoon morale is high. He hasgirlfriend was also floundering, region in the 1980s, drawing packages. proven himself a solid and de-and he was drinking a lot. miners such as his father, Dan- Back at home, though, his pendable soldier … Pte. Welch is A military inquiry could have iel Welch. family noticed troubling signs. recommended for re-engage-uncovered what factors contri- With the wilderness at his During his two-week leave in ment.”buted to Pte. Welch’s suicide doorstep, Pte. Welch developed the fall, he was sullen and with- Military documents that Ms.and whether there were some a love for the outdoors, often drawn. Two soldiers from his Cenerini kept show that her sonearly key lessons for Canada on hiking, camping and fishing battalion were killed during his refused to extend his army con-caring for soldiers after their Af- with his younger sister, break, but he didn’t want to tract on April 7, 2004. But inghanistan tours – deployments Michelle. “We were always close. talk about it. He just wanted to the call before the Mother’s Daythat continued for a decade He was a protective older broth- go out, get drunk and forget. weekend in Thunder Bay, heafter the private’s death. er,” she said. “He was a completely different told her that he’d changed his Yet, the Forces confirmed last Pte. Welch wanted to make a person,” his sister recalled, the mind and re-signed with theweek that no board of inquiry career out of protecting others. memory bringing her to tears. military that very day. He saidever took place. Only a lesser He had plans to become a po- “He didn’t have any emotions. he had a car to pay for andsummary investigation was con- lice officer and thought military He was very angry. He acted like talked about wanting to getducted, and its findings were experience would help him. He he didn’t care about us and he married and have kids somenever divulged to Pte. Welch’s signed up for the army on Aug. was drinking heavily.” day.family. 27, 2001. Fifteen days later, the He grew more distant in His mother and stepfather The investigation report, world changed. phone conversations after were uneasy with his decisionwhich the military has retrieved The recent high-school gradu- returning to Afghanistan. A Ca- and didn’t know what to makefrom the government’s Library ate was with his mother and nadian solider attempted to kill of his change of mind. It wasand Archives Canada after The baby brother when the smoul- ................................................................ himself during the deployment, the last time they heard fromGlobe made several inquiries dering World Trade Center tow- which angered Pte. Welch, his him.last year, will soon be presented ers appeared on their television mother said. Then, on Jan. 27, “We replay the conversationto the family, a military spokes- screen. Nearly 3,000 people 2004, Corporal Jamie Murphy over and over again,” Mr. Pal-person said. Major Giselle Hol- were killed in the al-Qaeda- was killed and three other Ca- mer said. ................................................................land said the army will “do our orchestrated attack. nadian soldiers were woundedutmost to answer any questions “I’m going to have to go to by a suicide bomber while on Nearly a year after her son’s sui-they might have.” war, mom,” his mother recalled patrol. Pte. Welch was in tears cide, Ms. Cenerini sent a note to Boards of inquiry into military him saying. She began crying on the phone the next day: “He the only e-mail address in hissuicides were not mandatory in and pleaded with him to drop said that should have been me, Yahoo account that didn’t2004, but had been carried out out of the military. “They need mom. That should have been belong to a family member. Shein other cases. Rules were me now more than ever, mom,” me.” found the account on his com-changed in August, 2008, mak- he told her, draping his arm Pte. Welch and Cpl. Murphy puter, which she’d finallying inquiries the standard in over her shoulder. were both rear gunners, he received back from the military.deaths by suicide. But practices In August, 2003, the fresh- explained. Pte. Welch’s platoon “I don’t know who you are –remain inconsistent and the faced soldier deployed to Kabul was supposed to be on that but I wonder if you could sharerobustness of the internal prob- with the 3rd Battalion of the fateful patrol, but the schedule with me what kind of relation-es varies. Royal Canadian Regiment, part changed. She tried to comfort ship you had with Thomas,” she More than 70 Afghanistan war of Canada’s contribution to the her son, but he was devastated. wrote. “Thomas took his ownveterans have killed themselves NATO mission formed after a She could feel him slipping life. If there is anything you canafter serving in the mission, The U.S.-led invasion removed the away. share with me to help me putGlobe’s continuing probe of mil- Taliban government from power. Pte. Welch never planned to the pieces together I would cer-itary suicides has found. Many Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda or- be in the army beyond his ini- tainly be incredibly grateful. Sor-were dealing with PTSD or other ganization had been based in tial three-year contract. A 2002 ry, if this news is a shock tomental illnesses connected to Afghanistan. work evaluation notes that he you.”their deployments. Pte. Welch was a trusted rifle- wanted to go to college when She was searching for answers T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L • M O N D AY , A P R I L 2 4 , 2 0 1 7 O NEWS • A9

Anita Cenerini holds her late

son’s beret. Ms. Cenerini suspects Private Thomas Welch was struggling with post- traumatic stress disorder. He was constantly agitated after his return from Afghanistan and was haunted by nightmares. LYLE STAFFORD/THE GLOBE AND MAIL

because she had received scant seen as trivializing the impor- 2005. “I will understand if you arrived in Ms. Cenerini’s inbox information from the military. tance of the event, an event feel this is ‘too little, too late,’ the day after she wrote to the Pte. Welch hanged himself that will invariably be of but I hope you will agree that if stranger. He said he’d been inside his room at the Petawa- In terms of optics, choosing a momentous consequence to the we discover even a small piece transferred to Pte. Welch’s sec- wa base, northwest of Ottawa. Summary Investigation over families of the deceased and to of the puzzle that helps us in- tion and served with him in Af- In the days after his death, con- the military community,” Mr. tervene and prevent a recur- ghanistan. They patrolled flicting stories and rumours the more concerted effort Marin wrote in his 2004 report. rence of this kind of tragedy in together almost every day and swirled about what happened involved in a Board of Ms. Cenerini kept trying to get the future, it has to be benefi- night. In quiet times, he said, the night he died. His parents Inquiry can be seen as at the truth – a pursuit that cial.” Pte. Welch talked about how heard their son had been drink- eventually wore her down. On Pieces of a puzzle that a board smart his younger brother was ing and was upset with his ex- trivializing the importance of Feb. 16, 2005, she wrote to then- of inquiry could have put and shared stories about his sis- girlfriend and some friends. An- the event, an event that will Lieutenant-Colonel Donald together, if one had been called. ter. He also talked about leaving other story suggested he was Denne, the commanding officer Mr. Denne declined an inter- the army and going back to instead pining over an old love. invariably be of momentous of her son’s battalion, to express view request to talk about why school. A military chaplain told them consequence to the families concerns about her son’s mental a summary investigation was “Thom was an ideal soldier one thing, and another told of the deceased and to the health and depressive state in ordered instead of an inquiry. but an even better person,” he them something else. When Afghanistan. He said the military should told Ms. Cenerini. “I knew right they got his computer back military community. It’s clear from his response to have all the pertinent records. away that he would be a from the military, they found a her that not much effort had “For me to try to remember genuine friend in an organiza- loving letter to his ex-girlfriend, André Marin been made to talk with Pte. the factors that led to a decision tion where friendships were but it appeared to have been Former military ombudsman, Welch’s family or friends about that long ago would be conjec- often not so sincere. I turned edited after he died, Ms. Ceneri- in a 2004 report his mental state. The comman- ture at best,” he wrote. “I sin- out to be correct.” ni said. der promised to send a copy of cerely hope that Private Welch’s He said Pte. Welch’s suicide They even heard speculation Ms. Cenerini’s letter to the new family, some of whom I met in was a shock to everyone. He that Pte. Welch had been killed. commanding officer of the 3rd Winnipeg with my RSM [regi- regretted not inquiring more “I would hear one thing and Battalion of the Royal Canadian mental sergeant major] before I forcefully about what had hap- then go to another person and Regiment. relinquished command of the pened to his friend. hear something else,” Ms. Cene- “I hope you know that had I battalion, can find closure “Don’t stop asking questions if rini said. “It just made it known of his state of mind, I through communication with you need answers,” he implored unbearable.” would have brought considera- the Department of National Ms. Cenerini. She knew a military investiga- ble influence to bear to ensure Defence.” Nearly 13 years after her son’s tion had taken place, but was proper treatment was provided,” An e-mail from Pte. Welch’s suicide, she hopes those an- never told of its results, nor did the Lt.-Col. wrote on March 30, mysterious Yahoo contact swers are finally near. she receive a copy of the coro- ner’s report. No one talked to her about holding a board of ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

inquiry. In August, 2003, Private Thomas

Inquiries into military deaths Welch deployed to Kabul with the by suicide were not mandatory 3rd Battalion of the Royal Canadian then, but were often carried out Regiment, part of Canada’s to identify gaps and measures contribution to the NATO mission that could help prevent other formed after a U.S.-led invasion deaths. Indeed, boards of inqui- removed the Taliban government ry had been held for much less from power. COURTESY OF ANITA CENERINI serious incidents, such as the case of a missing parachute, for- mer military ombudsman André Marin noted in a rebuke of the inquiry system in December, 2004. For Mr. Marin, a summary investigation – the probe chosen for Pte. Welch’s death – was not an adequate substitute for a board of inquiry, which has the power to gather evidence and hear from witnesses. “In terms of optics, choosing a Summary Investigation over the more concerted effort involved in a Board of Inquiry can beA10 • OPINION O T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L • M O N D AY , A P R I L 2 4 , 2 0 1 7

The subject who is truly loyal to the chief magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures — JUNIUS

A merican President Donald Trump’s repeated outbursts last

week about Canada’s “very unfair” treatment of Wisconsindairy farmers is simple to explain: Someone waved a press releasefrom the U.S. dairy lobby under his nose and gave him a whiff ofsomething he could grandstand on. Typical Trumpian bombast? Sure. But here’s the thing: While Mr.Trump probably has little idea of the details of the case, the issuehe raised is legitimate. And on this issue, Mr. Trump is more rightthan wrong. Dairy farmers in Wisconsin and New York State sent a letter tothe White House earlier this month, complaining that they havebeen hurt by an unfair price-fixing decision from Canada’s all-pow-erful and highly protected milk cartel. They have a case. The cartel’s decision, as with all its moves, ben-efits dairy farmers at the expense of everyone else – Canadian con-sumers, in particular. The story goes like this: The Canadian Dairy Commission andprovincial marketing boards set prices for milk and milk productsbased on production costs that aren’t grounded in market reality. LETTERS TO THE EDITORMilk production is strictly controlled by quotas that guarantee ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................

farmers an annual income. At the same time, steep tariffs restrict Housing: A, B, see? eral thousand housing units cerned about their safety, like where people want to live and Ibrahim Hindy, an imam in Miss-the import of competing dairy products from outside Canada. This help bring down pricing. issauga, simply because of sug- ................................................................means there is limited market incentive to be as efficient as possi- Is that possible? Of course not: gesting an opportunity to have Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, We can’t imagine the government equal accommodations for allble. like B.C. Premier Christy Clark, expropriating land on that scale students. It seems that critics are The supply-management system is hugely beneficial to a relative- continues to pussyfoot around to increase density. Hence, our not only against the idea of reli- the issue of housing affordability, resorting to plowing under more gious accommodations in thely small number of farmers, but it raises costs for millions of con- while doing nothing to address farmland in the outer suburbs. Peel District School Board, butsumers. A C.D. Howe Institute study found that, between 2005 and the real problem. Scapegoating – Emile van Nispen, Toronto they are contributing to the anti- ................................................................ foreign investors is easy, because Muslim hate.2011, the price differential between Canada and the U.S. for milk, they can’t vote. But they are also Religious accommodations areeggs and cheese ranged from 29 to 77 per cent. not necessarily the problem. Stop dithering already present in the school cal- What is the problem, is real endar as we receive days off for The higher prices also hurt processing companies that produce estate speculators, foreign and Good Friday and Christmas, and domestic, driving up home prices ................................................................dairy-based products like cheese, frozen pizza and yogurt. They’re no one seems to be against that. while the rest of us and our kids Re Criminal-Pardon Fee A ‘Signif- However, as soon as we look forsaddled with artificially high prices for their basic ingredients. get stuck with the costs. The icant’ Barrier (April 21): Public other accommodations, people But then one day these processing companies found a loophole direct way to deal with this is a Safety Minister Ralph Goodale are using this issue to step up the tax on speculative capital gains was briefed by officials in Septem- anti-Muslim rhetoric, which isin the North American free-trade agreement that allowed them to on real estate from short-term ber, 2016, that the pardon fee is becoming a great concern to theimport skim-milk solids and ultra-filtered milk “ingredients” from flipping: 100 per cent for less than “an insurmountable financial Muslim communities. a year, 95 per cent for less than burden.” Seven months later, the – Fuad Khayer, Torontothe U.S. at prices below those set by Canadian marketing boards. ................................................................ two years, and so on, until the parole board is “exploring … Suddenly, New York and Wisconsin farmers had a new market in activity stops, and the economy is options.” What a sparkling dem-Canada that today is estimated to be worth as much as $150-mil- brought back to stability. onstration of the pathetically gla- A grateful vet Premiers Clark and Wynne are cial pace at which governmentlion (U.S.) a year. so busy protecting those who bureaucrats operate. If I did my profit from flipping that their job this slowly, I wouldn’t have ................................................................ So what did the marketing boards do? Starting last year, in a supposed measures are complete- one. Stop dithering and help poor Re Family Seeks To Reclaim Veter-move that began in Ontario and has spread across the country, ly ineffective. If the provincial people improve their lives. an’s Medal (April 18): I was de- premiers don’t have the guts to – Christopher Price, Toronto lighted to read about the familyprovincial marketing boards are now letting dairy farmers sell ................................................................ do it, where are Vancouver Mayor seeking to reclaim a veteran’sthese ingredients at the lowest available international market Gregor Robertson and Toronto medal after its loss 40 years ago. Iprice. Mayor John Tory when they could Milk, markets had a similar experience with my be doing more? two British Army service medals, The upshot for farmers in Mr. Trump’s country is that they have – Malcolm McSporran, Vancouver which were stolen when our ................................................................ ................................................................ home was broken into while weseen lucrative contracts with Canadian processing companies dis- I am confused. Ontario’s “multi- The price of milk in the United were at the Santa Claus Parade.appear overnight. pronged” attack on the housing States has plummeted 40 per Forty years later, I, too, spotted problem includes: cent, and American producers them on an auction site. A repre- For Canadians consumers, however, this price-fixing adds insult a) A five-year, $125-million plan need a place to move it. Read: sentative of the auction house into the injury already caused by supply management. Now the only to “encourage construction of dump it (U.S. Farmers Sour On London, Ont., was most helpful in new rental buildings” and Canadian Dairy: The Final Nail In retrieving them from the last pur-people in this country who are allowed to purchase dairy products b) imposing rent control on all Supply Management’s Coffin? – chaser, who I am sure did notat actual market prices are those in the dairy industry. The rest of rental units. Report on Business, April 21). want to possess stolen goods. I looked in my old Economics So, let’s get on board with the I am still grateful for the won-us are stuck with artificially inflated prices for the milk that we put 101 text to figure out how “b” Americans, and have an up-and- derful efficiency of yet another ofin our coffee before going to work at jobs that aren’t conveniently could encourage “a” without suc- down, now-collapsing, now-high- our auction houses. cess. I’ll have to check my grand- flying milk market that puts – Rodney Travers-Griffin, Torontolocated behind impregnable walls of market protection. ................................................................ son’s more advanced literature. farmers on the sidelines and of- Canada’s ambassador to the U.S., David MacNaughton, fired off a – Andrzej Derkowski, professional fers consumers erratic pricing?letter of protest to the governors of Wisconsin and New York on urban planner (retired), Oakville, Let’s accept milk that contains History: ins and outs Ont. highly questionable growth hor- ................................................................Wednesday that squarely placed the plight of their farmers on U.S. mones. Let’s put Canadian milk producers out of work. Let’s join ................................................................ I am delighted to see rent controlpolicies. He accused U.S. farmers of overproduction that has contri- expanded. It’s hard enough trying the world of oversupply with the Writing about the reaction to thebuted to lower prices, a claim that has some truth in it. to make the rent without worry- Americans, Australians and New CBC series, Canada: The Story of ing about double-digit hikes, Zealanders. Let’s turn our back on Us, Mark Kingwell rightly com- It’s also true that New York and Wisconsin’s biggest trading part- especially after going through a an industry that has consistently plains about the presumptionner is Canada. The two states export about $20-billion worth of pa- bidding war where we “offered” provided Canadians with excel- that, in speaking or writing, one (it felt more like extortion!) over lent quality milk, produced close should not leave anything outper products, plastics, car parts, aluminum and other things to our the posted rent to get the place by your neighbourhood, by indi- (The Real Story Of Us: We Can’tcountry every year. The milk ingredients market is a very small after losing out on two others. viduals who raise families, and Agree On Anything, April 20). – Nancy Saunders, Toronto pay taxes that help all of us. Gertrude Stein made the samepart of that; this is not exactly the smartest issue for Mr. Trump to ................................................................ Let’s further support the empty- point decades ago. She had beenstart a trade war over. Having lived in several European ing of our rural communities. invited to give a lecture at Oxford countries has allowed us to see – Peter McAuslan, Sutton, Que. on contemporary literature, and But Mr. MacNaughton did not address the fact that Canada has ................................................................ how different societies handle the first question when she fin-proved to be an undependable NAFTA partner by allowing its dairy housing issues. Here, it seems ished was, “What about the wom-marketing boards to adjust prices at a whim in order to stem com- that in our urban planning, we Anti-Muslim talk an question?” Stein’s reply, as are handcuffed within a box of related by historian Tony Judt,petition from the U.S. our own making. should be posted on every college ................................................................ notice board: “Not everything can For example, in the unlikely The U.S. dairy lobby has been calling on Washington to respond. event of a downtown subway re- Re School’s Muslim Support be about everything.”Two other Canadian trading partners also fed up with Canada’s lief line going ahead (say along a Sparks Death Threat (April 19): Time to chill, I think. significant portion of Pape Ave- I am a student in the Toronto Dis- – Hamar Foster, Victoriamilk cartel – Australia and New Zealand – say they will support the ................................................................ nue), would it be possible to ex- trict School Board. I am from aU.S. if it takes its complaint to the World Trade Organization. propriate the land on both sides Muslim family and I am becom- Letters to the Editor should be of the street, give owners a fair ing increasingly concerned about exclusive to The Globe and Mail. Mr. Trump is no free-trader. His only answer to the challenges of premium over market value and the acceptance of different Include name, address and daytimea globalized world is to build walls, regulatory and literal. It is very rebuild with five- to six-storey, religions after hearing about phone number. Keep letters under mixed-use buildings of retail, some of the threats associated 150 words. Letters may be editedhard to sympathize with him on anything, let alone on trade. condo, rental and subsidized with Islamophobia. for length and clarity. But as anti-liberal and self-serving as he is, he’s got nothing on housing? That would provide sev- No one deserves to feel con- E-mail: letters@globeandmail.comCanada’s milk cartel. Were he to imagine his perfect business ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................

tions that mobilizing your friends Yet, provincial governments nev- their individual and collective grown adults to act their age. So and relatives to get to the polls is er seem to learn the lessons of judgement.” the solution is not more and often enough to become a trustee. these fiascos. Of course, Ms. Hunter promised smaller school boards. It is zero If you are strategic and win the The latest case of School Board a crackdown, issuing 22 directives school boards. backing of a teachers’ union or Theatrics 101 involves the York and ordering the board to clean In today’s education system, in church group, you are all but Region District School Board, up its act. Last week, the board which budgets, curriculum andKONRAD YAKABUSKI guaranteed a board seat for life. whose trustees were described as dismissed the director of educa- teaching credentials are handledkyakabuski@globeandmail.com That will allow you to travel to providing “far from strong and tion it was questioned for hiring at the provincial level, school Europe on the taxpayers’ dime to ethical leadership” in a recent in the first place. Perhaps York boards are an anachronism and................................................................ participate in “exploratory learn- provincially commissioned trustees can be publicly shamed have few substantive responsibil-

T he Ontario Public School

Boards Association has ahandy explainer on its website for ing opportunities” no matter how farcical that description. It will allow you to throw your weight review. That is an understatement in itself, considering the board’s inaction after one trustee into behaving for a while. At least until the media move on to the train crash unfolding at some oth- ities. Most of what they do could be transferred to individual school principals, parents’ com-anyone wondering why these around, bully board staff and described a black parent in public er broken school board. mittees or the province.archaic entities even exist in 2017. swear a blue streak at the office using the N-word. A 2015 advisory panel report on Not that abolishing them is easy“School trustees play an indis- with relative impunity. “Rather than remaining focused the Toronto District School Board politics. Quebec’s current Liberalpensable role in preserving our Sure, the pay’s not great. But on student achievement and well- led by former mayor Barbara Hall government tried, tabling legisla-democratic heritage,” it says, ig- you can’t beat it for the free trips, being, the board continues to be recommended that if the TDSB tion in 2015 to replace the prov-noring the elephant in the class- be they of the European or power consumed by infighting and per- continued on its dysfunctional ince’s 72 elected school boardsroom. variety. sonal clashes, and even in the track, it be broken up into as with school councils made up of The truth is that most school That is, until someone higher midst of this review, infighting many as three smaller boards. Yet, parents, principals, teachers andboards offer a sorry spectacle of up clues in to the obvious: You continued,” reviewers Patrick it is far from clear that smaller community representatives. TheCanadian democracy in action. need adult supervision. The num- Case and Suzanne Herbert wrote boards are any less dysfunctional English boards protested thatThey cannot even govern them- ber of cases of provincial educa- in their report this month to On- than bigger ones. they had a constitutional right toselves, much less look out for the tion ministers being forced to tario Education Minister Mitzie The Waterloo Region District exist. The French boards lobbiedstudents in their charge. They are intervene directly in the manage- Hunter. “We found the lack of School Board is a fraction of the just as hard for their survival andplagued by petty ideological bat- ment of dysfunctional school concern over the public reaction size of the TDSB. So is the English- the government abandoned itstles, personality conflicts, incivili- boards, even firing entire slates of to their travel expenditures quite language Lester B. Pearson School bill within months, preferring toty and sheer incompetence. trustees, keeps growing. From astounding. There was no sense Board in suburban Montreal. Yet focus on less divisive topics. So few Canadians actually turn Halifax to Vancouver, this pathet- that they appreciated the fact the they, too, have been plagued by But one lost opportunity shouldout to vote in school board elec- ic pattern keeps repeating itself. public was seriously questioning the same apparent inability of not be the end of a good cause.

It’s more than a housing crisis

Lost in the hysteria over prices is urban inequality, and the loss of middle-class neighbourhoods that powered the Canadian Dream.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Montreal have the highest levels The problem has serious politi- of income inequality and have cal repercussions, as well. The seen the largest and fastest in- deepening geographic divides creases over the past several dec- that define it are behind the rise ades. But the key feature of the of populism in the form of Brexit new crisis is the decline of the in Britain and Donald Trump’sRICHARD FLORIDA middle class and of the once stur- rise in the United States. Cana-Author of The New Urban Crisis dy middle-class neighbourhoods dians may rest easy with Justinand director of cities at the Martin that were the platforms of the Ca- Trudeau as Prime Minister and aProsperity Institute at the nadian Dream. As the pioneering great crop of mayors. But remem-University of Toronto’s Rotman research of my University of ber that Toronto was one of theSchool of Management Toronto colleague David Hul- first places in the world to experi- chanski documents, middle-class ence the populist backlash that................................................................ neighbourhoods, which made up propelled Rob Ford into the may-

I n recent years, the young, edu-

cated and affluent have surgedback into cities, reversing decades two-thirds of all Toronto neigh- bourhoods in 1970, fell to fewer than 30 per cent by 2005. The or’s office. It is imperative that Canada and its major cities aggressivelyof suburban flight and urban trend is similar in Vancouver and address this crisis. The federaldecline. And yet, all is not well. Montreal and across Canada. Liberals made reducing inequali-The very same forces that power The crisis is shaped by a funda- ty and rebuilding the middlethe growth of our great cities On the basis of cost-to-income, Vancouver is the world’s third-least mental contradiction of today’s class, as well as infrastructure andhave generated a crisis of gentrifi- affordable city and Toronto is ninth. It is imperative that Canada address great cities. The clustering of affordable-housing investments,cation, rising inequality and in- this crisis proactively and aggressively. JONATHAN HAYWARD/THE CANADIAN PRESS industry, economic activity and central to their campaign plat-creasingly unaffordable urban talented people in cities, which is form. But Canada’s cities need tohousing. run you more than a million dol- phia housing-affordability survey, the fundamental engine of inno- take a more proactive role if they The new urban crisis is different lars – $1.7-million in Greater Van- seven of Canada’s largest 40 met- vation and economic growth, hope to tackle the root of thefrom the older urban crisis of the couver and $1.2-million in Greater ro areas are severely unafforda- also carves deep divides into our problem. Only by increasing den-1960s and 70s. That previous cri- Toronto though it will set you ble, 10 are seriously unaffordable, cities and our society. As the sity and building affordable hous-sis was defined by the economic back even more than $1.56-mil- 13 are moderately unaffordable affluent and advantaged return to ing, upgrading low-wage serviceabandonment of cities and their lion in the city of Toronto proper. and 10 are unaffordable. cities, they colonize the best loca- work into family-supporting jobs,loss of economic function. But Still, Canadians like to think This housing-cost squeeze hits tions – in and around the urban and investing in better transit in-the new crisis is, in many ways, housing in their major cities is hardest at low-wage blue-collar centre, around transit, close to frastructure to connect more peo-an outgrowth of urban success. more affordable than, say, Lon- and service workers who have knowledge institutions and ple and places to its centres ofThe predicament can be seen in don or New York. And while an just $11,500 and $26,400 left over around amenities like parks and employment can our cities hopethe dramatic growth in housing apartment or townhouse in Man- after paying for housing com- waterfronts, while the less advan- to combat this crisis.prices and the even more dramat- hattan or central London will pared to knowledge, professional taged are pushed out into the fur- Despite the challenges theyic decline in housing affordability, cost more in dollars or pounds and creative workers who have ther reaches of the suburbs and face, Canada’s great cities remainespecially in cities like Toronto than one in Vancouver or Toron- $45,000 left over. exurbs or the disconnected and the country’s basic engines ofand Vancouver. In both, the to, both suffer from serious un- Inequality is another key disadvantaged areas of the city. innovation, wealth and progress.median price of a detached sin- affordability based on the actual dimension of the problem. Cana- Canada’s major metropolitan Ultimately, the solution is more –gle-family home will now set you incomes people make. On a hous- da ranks fifth of 15 advanced areas are fragmenting into a new not less – urbanism. Getting thereback easily over $1-million. ing-cost-to-income basis, Vancou- countries on income inequality. kind of patchwork metropolis, requires that we shift from the In Vancouver, the average ver is the world’s third-least- The top 1 per cent earn more than with small areas of concentrated current lopsided and unequalhome costs $1.2-million dollars. affordable city, and Toronto is 10 times as much as the average advantage surrounded by much model of winner-take-all urban-in Greater Toronto, it’s more than ninth. But this crisis extends Canadian. But inequality is even larger spans of concentrated dis- ism to fairer and fuller urbanism$750,000. In both cities, a beyond just these two superstar worse in Canada’s cities and met- advantage that span city and sub- that all workers and residents candetached single family home will cities. According to a Demogra- ro areas. Toronto, Vancouver and urbs alike. benefit from.

TIMOTHY CAULFIELD ence-free noise. But now it seems will be counting on the science- it is a body of knowledge.” Science modernism, Thomas Kuhn andCanada Research Chair in health more pervasive and persuasive informed craft to land safely at a is not a list of facts. It is not a Michel Foucault. I am fully awarelaw and policy at the University of than ever before. A recent survey, science-informed airport.) building, an industry or a govern- that there have always been socialAlberta, a Trudeau Fellow and for example, found that 28 per Similarly, we probably all know ment department. It is not the forces, corporate interests and po-author of Is Gwyneth Paltrow cent of Canadians still believe or someone who becomes enraged arrogant researcher who thinks litical agendas that twist how sci-Wrong About Everything?: are uncertain about the 100-per- when people don’t accept the sci- he knows everything or the in- ence is done and how it isWhen Celebrity Culture cent debunked link between vac- entific consensus on climate spiring one who seems to. And it represented. But these failingsAnd Science Clash cines and autism (no, no, and change but, at the same time, that is not a tool in service of a partic- should not be viewed as a con- no!). individual will enthusiastically ular ideology. Science is a process. demnation of science. Rather,................................................................ Despite these numbers, when reject the just-as-strong scientific It is a way of seeing the world. they should be viewed as a call to

W e need more science. We

need better science. Weneed trustworthy science. We asked, most people will say that they do trust science. But, for many, they trust only the science consensus on the safety of GMOs. And there often seems a kind of willful blindness to the supernat- Some studies have shown that reinforcing scientific thinking – such as explaining the basics of action to protect science and to make it better. At the Edmonton March for Sci-need agenda-free science. that fits their pre-existing beliefs. ural and evidence-free underpin- causation – can be an important ence, there were numerous post- These are just some of the mes- More problematic, they find ways nings of many of the increasingly tool in the fight against pseudo- ers mocking Trump andsages I heard again and again at to dismiss the science that popular (and, too frequently, science. Others have found that anti-vaxxers. Others heralded sci-Edmonton’s March for Science on doesn’t. Indeed, a 2017 study government-sanctioned) alterna- fostering critical thinking, includ- ence’s big successes. And a fewSaturday. Even in Trumpless Can- found that humans are remarka- tive health practices. Do the peo- ing elucidation of the numerous called for governments to rely onada, there is a sense that these are bly skillful information avoiders. ple who endorse interventions forces that can twist science, can science-informed policy.precarious times for science. This kind of unconscious cogni- like Reiki, to cite just one exam- help to inoculate people against But my favourite – which bor- I’ve been involved in science tive tendency allows us to build ple, really believe there is a vital scientific misinformation. Of rowed from Rick and Morty, a pop-policy for 25 years. I’ve witnessed our own realities. life-force energy that runs course, so many other factors are ular, science-themed cartoon –the disruptive power of social While sitting on a plane 10,000 through our body that can be important – building trust, emphasized one of the reasonsmedia, the rise of fake news, the metres in the sky, an individual controlled by our hands? appealing to the audience’s val- that, in these incredibly divisivegrowth of science-free, celebrity- can connect to the Internet and Changing minds isn’t easy. But a ues and using creative and engag- times, science is more valuableendorsed health trends and the send social-media missives about good place to start is with an un- ing communication strategies. than ever. Science is meant to beofficial legitimization of pseudo- how all knowledge is relative and derscoring of what science is and Yes, context matters. But all value-neutral and agenda-free.science by governments and uni- that science is just one way of un- is not. knowledge is not relative. Please, The poster read: “Rise Above,versities. derstanding the universe. (One As Carl Sagan said, “Science is a haters, there is no need for more Focus on Science.” Yes, there has always been sci- assumes that this same individual way of thinking much more than finger-wagging references to post- Amen.A12 • NEWS O T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L • M O N D AY , A P R I L 2 4 , 2 0 1 7

People practise tai chi on a

suspension bridge during an event at a Beijing tourist spot on Sunday. REUTERS

Couple arrested in Edmonton in case of dead toddler

Police say charges are pending against a man and woman after boy’s body found outside church by a passerby.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Edmonton police have arrested who was estimated to be about can Church on Tuesday morn- “My heart just really achesa man and a woman in the case 20 months old. ing, three days before it was to think of this thing happen-of a toddler whose body was Police did not publicly identify found by a passerby on Friday. ing,” said Marryman Porter,found outside a church on the My heart just really aches the suspects, however, they indi- Police did not say in their who attended a bake sale andnorth side of the city. to think of this thing cated they would have more to statement whether they had lunch held Saturday at the A police statement issued Sat- say about the investigation. identified the child. Good Shepherd Anglicanurday night said the two were happening. Earlier Saturday, police An autopsy has been sched- Church.arrested without incident in released grainy surveillance-vid- uled for Monday morning to People also stopped by tonorthwest Edmonton earlier in Marryman Porter eo pictures of a man and wom- determine how the toddler died. leave flowers and a teddy bearthe evening, that they were in Edmonton resident an they were looking for in In the statement issued Satur- at the place where the child’spolice custody, and that charges connection with the case. The day night the Edmonton Police body was discovered.were pending against both indi- pictures showed the two push- Service thanked the many peo- One woman, after laying flow-viduals. ing a stroller as they entered a ple it said contacted them with ers, hugged another woman The statement said investiga- store. tips, adding that no more would she’d arrived with, her eyestors were working to determine Investigators have said they be necessary. welling with tears. ................................................................the exact relationship between believe the boy’s body was left The case has triggered an out-the suspects and the little boy, near the Good Shepherd Angli- pouring of emotion in the city. The Canadian Press

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RCMP: Commissioner doesn’t support protests, but offers words of encouragement

9 The two-month trial threat-

ens to highlight a series ofchronic issues that ordinary announced it had filed a formal bid, having signed up 10,000 RCMP officers. This represents aMounties suggest have long majority of the force.been swept under the carpet. While the unionization process “When it comes to equipment, could take years to play out, thewhen it comes to pay, the RCMP continuing fiscal prudence ofis the dollar store of policing,” Ottawa officials has had the un-Sgt. Backus, of the RCMP’s Sun- intended consequence of galva-shine Coast detachment, said in nizing groups.an interview, adding that thou- On April 5, Public Safety Min-sands of Mounties have joined ister Ralph Goodale announcedthe pant-stripe protest. Rhyming a much-anticipated retroactiveoff complaints about staff shor- RCMP raise. Yet the annual paytages, broken squad cars and bumps of 1 per cent and 2 perdangerous duties, the 19-year cent were so underwhelmingveteran said he is past the point that many of the fence-sitters onof caring about the career con- the force immediately cast theirsequences of urging colleagues lots with the NPF.to tape over a yellow stripe that “A lot of members were wait-harks back to 19th-century ing to see whether they wouldcavalry traditions. take care of us. And they “If I get disciplined, or if I get didn’t,” says RCMP Sergeantfired for this, it will be the Brian Sauvé, a co-chair of theproudest moment of my RCMP NPF.career,” he said. The NPF basically doubled in................................................................ size in the span of that week inDecisions in Moncton early April, Sgt. Sauvé said, toThe image of Constable Douglas lock down its majority of RCMPLarche in his traditional RCMP members. Separately, thousandsuniform is now cast in bronze. of Mounties also joined theIn Moncton, a statue memorial- grassroots pant-stripe protest.izes him and two other officers “They haven’t had the gapshot dead within 20 minutes of closed in a decade and now it’seach other. A woman places flowers at a memorial to three RCMP officers – Constables Douglas Larche, David Ross and Fabrice getting wider,” said Senator Ver- Constable Larche’s widow says Gevaudan – who were gunned down in Moncton in June, 2014. ANDREW VAUGHAN/THE CANADIAN PRESS non White, a former RCMP assis-she supports the pant-stripe pro- tant commissioner. “Policetest and the labour-code trial in across Canada. labour unions are polarizing. services are making $96,000 to –the hope that they prompt dis- Labour Code charges are more They aggressively promote offi- in Calgary – $102,000 a year.”cussion and action. typically laid against federally cer safety and salaries, but often He added that with the new “I feel that this trial is sadly If I get disciplined, or if I get regulated corporations complicit at significant public cost. The pay raises, a first-class RCMPneeded to make it safer for po- fired for this, it will be the in accidents – for instance, farm- RCMP leadership has also lately constable would make betweenlice officers,” Nadine Larche, a ing employees crushed by grain expressed fears about “militar- $86,000 and $87,000.mother of three daughters, told proudest moment of my shipments or transport workers ization” – or the notion that po- Confronted with all this, RCMPThe Globe. RCMP career. maimed by malfunctions. lice develop a siege mentality Commissioner Bob Paulson has On June 4, 2014, 24-year-old There is no question that the and lose vital problem-solving appealed for labour calm.Justin Bourque donned military Sergeant Chris Backus RCMP were badly outgunned in skills if powerful weaponry and In an internal statement circu-fatigues, grabbed his semi-auto- Royal Canadian Mounted Police Moncton. Pistols and short-range armour are always within reach. lated mid-month, Commissionermatic rifle and marched through shotguns proved no match for The Mounties have never had Paulson told his officers hetown intent on killing police. He Mr. Bourque’s military-style rifle. to contend with a union. For didn’t support the pant-stripewounded two RCMP officers and Compounding the tragedy was decades, commanders in Ottawa protest, but wouldn’t disciplinekilled three – Constables Larche, the fact that bigger guns had have quashed and co-opted bids subordinates for participating inDavid Ross and Fabrice Gevau- been promised for years, but by the rank-and-file to organize. it.dan – before being arrested. were not yet available to detach- With the potential to represent The retiring commissioner Mr. Bourque is now serving ment members. “The time it nearly 18,000 cops, such an enti- urged patience, adding thatwhat is considered the toughest took to roll out the carbine pro- ty would be strong enough to RCMP members could probablylife-sentence – no chance of pa- ject, including the training and challenge almost all entrenched count on their “revolutionary”role for 75 years – ever meted delivery of the weapons to police policies in Canada. But in organizing efforts to win themout in Canada. members of the RCMP, has tak- 2015, the Supreme Court ruled it some significant salary gains in What’s at issue during the en far too long,” reads a 2014 was unconstitutional for the the years to come.current trial are operational postmortem report on the Mounties to be blocked from “What needs to be recognizeddecisions made by senior RCMP Moncton massacre. unionizing. and remembered by us all, in ................................................................commanders who had the job On April 18, a Mounties-only my opinion, is the impendingof rolling out training, weapons Underwhelming pay hikes group known as the National reality of a unionized RCMPand equipment to detachments For the wider public, police Police Federation (NPF) work force,” he said.

Letter to the Prime Minister of Canada

THE CANADIAN MODEL MUST NOT BE A BARGAINING CHIP Dear Prime Minister:

Founded in 1922, La Coop fédérée is a major player in the country’s agricultural and agri-food industry, with more than 90,000 members grouped into 70 cooperatives, nearly 18,000 employees and combined revenue of $9.2 billion. La Coop fédérée operates in 8 of Canada’s 10 provinces either directly or through subsidiaries and partnerships.

Canada might enter into NAFTA renegotiations with the United States and Mexico. It is because of this model that our farmers can make a decent living from their pro- This is a major source of concern for agricultural producers and the Canadian fession, despite climate conditions that are considerably increasing their produc- agri-food industry. tion costs and the proximity of agro-economic predators hoping to turn an even bigger proﬁt by coming into our farms and supermarkets without considering the These concerns are well founded if you compare the players involved: Canadians damage this would cause to our regional economies. and their counterparts south of our border. The size of US farms, the billions paid in subsidies to US farmers and the production methods used in the US are unbe- Canada came to be because of the determination and energy of pioneers who lievable. This comparison in itself would be enough to justify the concerns felt by wanted to build a better world while respecting the most admirable of human val- us and all across the country. While what we have to say today takes this informa- ues: honesty, support, solidarity and fairness—values that are ﬁrmly held by the tion into account, it is not the only lens through which we see this issue that affects members of La Coop fédérée. And the history of these pioneers so far has been a us so deeply. resounding success, with no need to succumb to the siren’s song of economically liberal despots. Agriculture is a signiﬁcant economic activity in Canada. In 1994, several countries agreed to give the arts and culture special treatment in It is ﬁrst and foremost a deeply human activity, a history of men and women who some major international treaties. This was called “cultural exception,” meant to have passed down their work, from one generation to the next, and set high stan- be a counterweight to the offensives of certain powers. dards for themselves, providing their fellow Canadians with access to high-quality products. Our farmers were practising an economy of proximity well before it was As you know, several countries, including India and Brazil, have rejected the a buzzword. unique model for the exceptional activity that is food production and processing for human consumption. Canadian agriculture is also a particular way of understanding our country and the quality of life of its inhabitants due to the reliability and safety of the products We must ensure Canadians that the food they buy and consume is consistent with provided, the jobs created, the economic activity generated. This also includes cut- our values and the quality and ethical standards they are entitled to. ting-edge research and the development of digital services. In the upcoming negotiations, the political and economic choices that Canada Supply management is a societal choice, a value choice. In this sense, our agricul- makes will have implications on several future generations of Canadians. We ap- tural and agri-food philosophy is a part of our collective identity, our expression preciate you not thinking of our agricultural economy as a bargaining chip, as just of respect for people, family, animals, land and the environment. This philosophy another industry, as you asserted in a Bloomberg Debrief. has enabled the development of an agricultural economy that is a crucial part of the Canadian experience. Mr. Trudeau, we are available should you wish to meet with us and engage in what we believe, under the present circumstances, is an essential dialogue. Prime Minister, every day our farmers are modernizing their practices, using more efficient and environmentally friendly technology, diversifying their offering and Ghislain Gervais helping expand our country’s global reach, while demonstrating the soundness of President of La Coop fédérée a model—supply management—that beneﬁts producers, processors and consum- President of the Board of Directors of Olymel L.P. ers, while ensuring food safety for all. President of the Board of Directors of Groupe BMRCANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE

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Report on Business Investors lookU.S. eyes punitive lumber duties for restraint asOttawa denies American industry’s allegations of ‘critical circumstances’ in Canadian softwood exports good times roll............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... for gold minersBRENT JANG QUESNEL, B.C. New Brunswick. U.S. industry is in swaying the de- Commerce selected four man-................................................................ The department will announce partment. U.S. producers allege datory respondents in Canada in ................................................................The U.S. Department of Com- its preliminary determination on there has been a surge of soft- the cross-border lumber dispute:merce is on the verge of imposing Tuesday on countervailing duties wood exports from Canada into Three B.C.-based producers (West JOSH O’KANEduties on Canada’s softwood- for Canada’s alleged lumber sub- the United States – “massive” Fraser Timber Co. Ltd., Canfor ................................................................

lumber exports, a move that

will send shock waves acrossforestry-dependent communities sidies. Precisely how much pain is felt by Canadian producers will shipments that would constitute “critical circumstances” to war- rant not only duties in the future, Corp. and Tolko Industries Ltd.) and Montreal-based Resolute For- est Products Inc. W ith Canada’s biggest gold miners back in the mode of making deals and striking part-from British Columbia to depend on how successful the but retroactively up to 90 days. Softwood, Page 2 nerships, analysts will be watch- ing the companies’ self-discipline as first-quarter financials start rolling in.The housing experts nobody wants to hire Last year was a period of recov- ery for gold producers: balance sheets got better, gold prices were healthy and rising and share............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... prices climbed. The S&P/TSXKIRAN RANA global gold index went up 50 per................................................................ cent in 2016, and it’s up another

H ome inspectors are taking a

substantial hit to their busi-nesses amid the frenzied bidding 12 per cent so far this year. In the past, strong gold markets have led to a round of mergers,for houses taking place in Toron- acquisitions and mine-building,to and the surrounding regions. followed by a painful reckoning. In desperation to come up on Investors haven’t forgotten, sotop in bidding wars, many home free cash flow, cost savings andbuyers are forgoing conditions debt reduction remain in theirthat may make their offer less sights as precious-metal minersappealing to a seller. One of the mull new projects in their marchfirst conditions to go is the need out of the commodity slump.for a home inspection. The industry’s poster child for “Nobody has a clause for home irrational exuberance was Bar-inspection in this hot housing rick Gold Corp., which burnedmarket,” says Murray Parish, billions of dollars with the $7.3-president of the Ontario Associa- billion cash purchase of Equinoxtion of Home Inspectors, who Minerals Ltd. in 2011. Barrick’ssays his 550 members have expe- Toronto-listed shares, once worthrienced a 30 to 50 per cent drop about $55, fell below $8 a couplein home inspections over the of years ago as the magnitude ofpast few months. its errors became apparent to the Toronto has seen consecutive market. (They’ve since rallied toyears of double-digit price gains. near $26.)The average sale price for In this cycle, the deal makingdetached homes in the central has been more sober and cau-416 area code in March was $1.56- tious. Typical was last month’smillion, up 33 per cent from a announced deal between Barrickyear earlier. In the 905 region and Goldcorp Inc., the country’sthat surrounds the city, detached Home inspector John Hansen checks the furnace in a house in Hamilton Friday. The number of houses Mr. Hansen two biggest gold miners, whichhomes went for an average of inspects has dropped as sellers reject buyers with bids conditional on an inspection. GLENN LOWSON/THE GLOBE AND MAIL said that they would join together$1.12-million, up 34 per cent. to consolidate gold-mine devel- Prices for semi-detached such as Kitchener-Waterloo, But while there has been a coming to the table, he says. opment in Chile’s Maricunga Belt.homes, townhouses and condos Oshawa and Hamilton. decrease in home inspections on However, this isn’t enough to It’s a complex, multistage trans-are all up sharply. In February, the number of the buyer’s side, Mr. Carson says completely offset the decline in action that also involves Kinross Alan Carson, president of home home inspections his company he’s also seeing an uptick in buyer home inspections. Gold Corp. and a junior mininginspection agency Carson Dun- did was down 30 per cent overall. home inspections being conduct- “We’re frustrated,” Mr. Carson company, but the result is thatlop, says that while the city of “Buyers aren’t forgoing the ed by the seller. When sellers says. “We know people want to Barrick and Goldcorp will be part-Toronto may be the epicentre of inspection because they want to; conduct a home inspection and protect themselves and are just ners in northern Chile, a movethe issue, his business has felt it’s because they feel like they offer the results in a report, they finding it so hard to do.” the companies said would helpthe shock waves even in regions have to,” says Mr. Carson. are finding that more buyers are Inspectors, Page 12 them split capital and operating costs while sharing infrastructure. It’s a busy week for Canada’s big Globe Investor ANALYSIS resource companies, with Barrick, Goldcorp and other gold miners

Why BMO’s Brian Belski believes How dairy farmers are trying to reporting first-quarter results, joined by other mining outfits, in-

we’re in a long-term bull market milk consumers with EU trade deal cluding Teck Resources Ltd. and Potash Corporation of Saskatche- wan Inc. ..................................................................................................................................... The gold industry “is definitely..................................................................................................................................... that keeps retail prices artificially in a better position than it was inBRENDA BOUW What’s your take on the high. 2015,” said Siddarth Subramani,................................................................ markets? Europe will eventually be mining analyst with Veritas

B rian Belski has been covering

his ears a lot lately. The chiefinvestment strategist at BMO Nes- U.S. stocks are mired in a 20-to-25- year bull market. Canada allowed to ship almost 18,000 tonnes of additional duty-free cheese to Canada – the equiva- Investment Research Corp, in an interview. “What I’ll be looking for is operating discipline,” hebitt Burns says there’s too much is going to come along for the BARRIE McKENNA lent of roughly 2 per cent of Can- continued, keeping an eye onnoise in the market – blame U.S. ride. I think investors are bmckenna@globeandmail.com ada’s domestic market. The first cost- and debt-reduction pro-President Donald Trump – that is focusing way too much on rheto- batches are set to hit the Cana- grams – like Barrick’s plan to ................................................................distracting investors from what ric. dian market this summer with reduce its debt by $2.9-billionhe sees as the early stages of long- Our call for 2017 for North OTTAWA the coming into force of the Can- (U.S.), to $5-billion, by the end of ................................................................term bull market. America is overweight analysis ada-European Union compre- next year. How long term? Decades, per-haps. The pessimists might be tempt- and underweight rhetoric. The U.S. is going to continue to outperform Canada, I think, for D onald Trump grumbles about what Canada’s dairy industry is doing to Americans. But it isn’t hensive economic and trade agreement (CETA) on July 1. Imported cheese currently makes Barrick will report its financials after markets close on Monday and is holding its annual generaled to tune out Mr. Belski if it the next three-to-five years, espe- half as bad as what we’re doing up just 5 per cent of the Cana- meeting on Tuesday.weren’t for his recent track cially given the fact that the U.S. to ourselves. dian market, and virtually all of it In a research note, BMO Nesbittrecord. In late 2015, he forecast has a clear path towards fiscal Take cheese, for example. comes in tariff-free. Burns Inc. analyst Andrew Kaipthe S&P/TSX composite index policy changes – meaning tax Among the key concessions Otta- So you might be thinking: and his team said mergers andwould outperform the S&P 500 in cuts, health care changes, re- wa made in its recent free-trade Finally, some relief on the steep acquisitions are expected to play2016 and set a target for the S&P/ patriation and infrastructure. agreement with Europe was to price of that tiny wedge of Cam- a big role in earnings conferenceTSX composite index of 15,300. It The positives we’ve seen so far allow more duty-free cheese into embert. calls for the sector. “Asset salesdid outperform and closed at from the Trump administration this country. Not so fast, cheese lovers. Trade and partnerships continue to15,288. The Globe recently spoke on Canada are the Keystone XL That’s a big deal because Cana- deals aren’t always about more remain topical for Barrick,” BMO’sto him about his view of the mar- pipeline. da imposes a 245.5-per-cent tariff competition and lowering costs. analysts wrote.kets and his calls for 2017. Belski, Page 6 on cheese imports – a barrier McKenna, Page 2 Lookahead, Page 2

9 New Brunswick-based con-

glomerate J.D. Irving Ltd., amajor lumber producer regional- cement in late June for an anti- dumping rate that is expected to be 10 per cent or higher. Analysts posed comparisons appear to be solely aimed at finagling a way to show an increase in imports enormous for forestry commun- ities such as Quesnel in the B.C. Interior. year, followed by Quebec (19 per cent), Ontario (7.9 per cent), Alberta (7.8 per cent) and Newly, is a voluntary respondent. also forecast a ruling of critical greater than 15 per cent, but that West Fraser, founded in Ques- Brunswick (7 per cent). “Based on the most recent in- circumstances, meaning punitive increase bears no relationship nel in 1955 by the Ketcham fami- The Atlantic provinces haveformation received from the tariffs would be backdated 90 whatsoever to the purpose of the ly, has grown over the decades to escaped U.S. tariffs and quotascompany respondents, the de- days from the effective date of critical circumstances provision,” become one of the largest lum- over the decades in the long-run-partment should make an affir- duties on new exports. the Canadian government said in ber producers in the world. ning softwood dispute datingmative critical circumstances The Canadian government de- a letter Thursday to the U.S. Brian Balkwill, West Fraser’s back to 1982, but New Brunswickfinding as part of its preliminary nies the U.S. industry’s allega- Commerce Department. vice-president of Canadian lum- is being targeted this timedetermination in the counter- tions of a surge of lumber The 2006 Canada-U.S. soft- ber, proudly pointed out the 400 around by the influential U.S.vailing duty investigation,” a shipments south of the border. wood-lumber agreement expired jobs at the sawmill – one of the industry group named COALI-group led by the U.S. Lumber Co- Ottawa counters that the U.S. in October, 2015. The U.S. lumber largest in British Columbia. TION, which stands for Commit-alition said in a letter last week producers have cherry-picked sector petitioned the Commerce Forestry management and tee Overseeing Action forto the U.S. Commerce Depart- statistics to suit their pro-tariff Department to begin its probe employees across Canada are Lumber International Tradement. agenda by creating new mea- this past November, after the nervously awaiting the details of Investigations Or Negotiations. Industry analysts predict the surements that go well beyond expiration of a one-year litiga- punitive duties. COALITION said it isn’t askingUnited States will slap a prelimi- traditional methods of gauging tion moratorium. British Columbia is Canada’s the U.S. Commerce Departmentnary countervailing-duty rate of exports after an investigation is With tariffs anticipated to total largest lumber exporter into the to take action against Nova Sco-least 20 per cent on Canadian launched. at least 30 per cent on Canadian United States, with a 55.2-per- tia, Prince Edward Island andexports, followed by an announ- The U.S. industry group’s “pro- lumber exports, the stakes are cent share of sales volume last Newfoundland.

9 On top of its joint venture

with Goldcorp, Barrick this SIGNS OF STABILIZATION ..................................................................................................................................... debt; in the 15 months ending Dec. 31, 2016, the value of out- prices – receiving $157 a tonne in the fourth-quarter of 2016,month announced a nearly Earnings this week standing notes shrunk to $6.1- compared with $238 a year earli-$1-billion (Canadian) deal with Teck Resources Barrick Gold Goldcorp billion (U.S.) from $7.2-billion. er.Shandong Gold Group Co. Ltd. $40 Daily Analysts are now curious But the potash company hasthat will give the Chinese com- about a potential dividend in- suggested its forthcoming merg-pany 50-per-cent of Barrick’s crease, which in December chief er with Calgary’s Agrium Inc.,Veladero mine in Argentina, executive Don Lindsay suggested slated to close this summer,among other benefits. 30 to Bloomberg could happen this could generate up to $500-mil- That announcement came month. Teck, like Barrick, had to lion in synergies annually. Andshortly after the third cyanide- make a severe cut in its divi- in a research note last week,solution incident in two years at 20 dend to get through a debt Andrew D. Wong of RBC Domin-the site prompted Argentine squeeze; the former’s semi- ion Securities Inc. said that stea-officials to request the mine sus- annual payout was cut from 45 dy global demand and improvedpend operations. Analysts will cents per share (Canadian) to market fundamentals for thebe keenly watching for an 10 just 5 cents. fertilizer producer should helpupdate. With a stronger balance sheet give the company a boost. Goldcorp on Wednesday will and lowered spending at the “We expect to see improvingreveal its first-quarter results. 0 Fort Hills oil sands project as free cash flow as the potashThe company announced its Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. construction nears completion, market gradually recovers andaggressive “20/20/20” five-year 2016 2017 Teck “is positioned to shift its capex investments are essential-growth program in January, aim- THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: BLOOMBERG focus toward revisiting its divi- ly completed,” he said.ing for 20-per-cent increases in dend policy and growth oppor- Related companies reportingboth production and gold re- diminished slightly, because of with Barrick, and a similar one tunities, namely the QB2 copper on the Toronto Stock Exchangeserves and a 20-per-cent cut to recent deals. with Vancouver-based, diversi- project,” wrote TD Securities Inc. next week include Agnico Eagleall-in sustaining costs. Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. fied miner Teck in Chile in 2015. analyst Greg Barnes in a March Mines Ltd., AuRico Metals Inc., Mr. Subramani said that com- analysts, who have a “hold” rat- Following a better-than-expect- research note. (QB2, or Quebra- Cameco Corp., Capstone Miningpared with major-producer ing on Goldcorp, are more skep- ed profit in the fourth quarter of da Blanca Phase 2, is a project Corp., Detour Gold Corp., Eldora-peers Barrick and Newmont tical: “We await operational 2016, Teck will release first-quar- aiming to expand production at do Gold Corp., Excelsior MiningMining Corp., Goldcorp’s growth delivery and predictability fol- ter financials on Tuesday. Recov- the Chile-based copper mine.) Corp., First Quantum Mineralspipeline is strongest, with the lowing a challenging 2016,” they ering from the commodity price Potash Corp. will also report Ltd., Hudbay Minerals Inc., ICmost options to increase pro- wrote in March. slump, Teck’s share price has in- first-quarter financials Thursday Potash Corp., Lundin Miningduction over the next five years The company is aiming for creased nearly six-fold since the morning. With an oversupplied Corp., Nevsun Resources Ltd.,– though its ability to fund such growth in part through partner- start of 2016, and the company global market, the company has New Gold Inc. and Teranga Goldprojects with cash on hand has ships such as its joint venture has been rapidly retiring its been grappling with low potash Corp.

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McKenna: Making dairy farmers the gatekeepers on imports won’t help consumers.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

9 Nothing is ever quite as it

seems in Canada’s sometimesupside-down world of supply piece of the action. Among the aspiring importers are Canadian dairy farmers and the European trade deal. Canadian cheese makers wouldn’t want to import cheese of Canada vice-president Karl Lit- tler told a parliamentary commit- tee last fall that only retailers can executive director of the Dairy Farmers of Canada, the national lobby organization for the coun-management – the convoluted processors, who say all the new that competes directly with their “ensure that the right product is try’s roughly 12,000 dairy farms.system that regulates everything import quota should go to do- own offerings. Why would Agro- provided to consumers, at the The final call on this will cometo do with milk, chicken and eggs, mestic cheese makers because pur, for example, undermine its right price.” He suggested other from federal Trade Minister Fran-from farm to fridge. they are the ones most affected own Oka sales? industry players might impose cois-Philippe Champagne – or The Europeans won’t get to by the trade concessions to One can imagine other ways Ca- unfair mark-ups. even further up the food chain,choose which cheeses we’re going Europe. nadian processors might use per- The only thing Ottawa has said given the high stakes.to get or at what price. Nor will If Ottawa agrees, these new mits to further their own interests – publicly, at least – is that it The government should treadconsumers. That will be up to the import permits will act as a back- at the expense of consumers or wants 30 per cent of the new Eur- carefully. Dairy farmers and pro-Canadian importers that Ottawa door subsidy to Canadian proces- retailers; for instance, import per- opean quota to go to “new cessors already have a pretty firmarbitrarily picks to bring in the sors and, indirectly, to the farmers mit holders could, at least tempo- entrants” – players who aren’t grip on their industry. Makingcheese. who sell them milk. That’s rarily, choose not to bring in any currently importing duty-free them import gatekeepers as well The government is poised to because some large processors, cheese, effectively denying cheese. would be like putting the fox instart doling out these lucrative including Agropur and Gay Lea, Europe the trade gains it made in That has created some unusual charge of the hen house.permits in the coming weeks. are farmer-owned co-operatives. CETA. business arrangements. A group It won’t help consumers, and itWith potential mark-ups of as These subsidies would be on Not surprisingly, retailers say all called the Canadian Alliance of risks enraging Europeans.much as 100 per cent available top of the $350-million in support the new quota should go to them Cheese Makers Inc. is seeking a And that’s before Mr. Trumpon the goods, importers have that Ottawa has already pledged because only they know what share of the new quota. Among takes on Canada’s merchants ofbeen lobbying furiously to get a to help the dairy sector adjust to consumers want. Retail Council the directors is Caroline Emond, dairy.

Weekly Appointment Review

The following appointments have been announced by companies and organizations during the past week www.peo.on.ca All Globe and Mail appointment notices are archived and available online at www.globeandmail.com/appointments Bob Dony PhD, P.Eng., FIEE, FEC

Bob Dony, PhD, P.Eng., FIEE, FEC, assumed office

as the 98th president of Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) at the association’s Annual General Meeting on April 22. He was elected by PEO members in 2016 to lead its 85,000 licence and certificate holders. Dr. Dony has a long history of volunteer leadership within PEO and the engineering community. He has served as PEO vice president and councillor-at-large, and is a past chair of Andrew Peck Kathy Bardswick Anne M. Stewart, Jeff Clark Tamara Finch both PEO’s Academic Requirements and Legislation committees. He also to President to Chair of the Board Q.C. to Managing to Managing represents PEO on Engineers Canada’s Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board. The Canadian Real CANATICS to Consultant Director, Business Director, Portfolio Estate Association Fengate Real Asset Analysis and Quality Management As an associate professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Investments Assurance OTPP Guelph, Dr. Dony is passionate about building a stronger profession for the OTPP next generation of engineers. During his term, he plans on partnering with engineering educators to examine the future evolution of the accreditation system, as well as increasing the diversity of voices at all levels of discussion within PEO. To make arrangements for a Report on Business Appointment Notice, please e-mail advertising@globeandmail.com or call: (416) 585-5111 • 1-800-387-9012 Dr. Dony holds BASc and MASc degrees in systems design engineering from the University of Waterloo and a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from McMaster University. He has authored numerous research papers in the field of image and signal processing in biomedical engineering.

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French stocks expected to rally on relief the country was not left with a choice between two radical, anti-EU presidential candidates.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

JEMIMA KELLY LONDON perceived decline in the break-up

................................................................ risk in the euro area,” he added,The euro surged in early trading though he said the single curren-in Asia on Sunday, while French cy’s moves would be limited bybond yields were expected to fall the fact that this outcome hadand French stocks to rally on been expected.Monday morning, on relief that French and European equitiesFrance had not been left with a were expected to rally when theychoice between two radical, anti- begin trading on Monday morn-EU presidential candidates. ing, while peripheral bond yields Multiple projections showed were expected to fall as investorscentrist Emmanuel Macron and regained their risk appetite.far-right leader Marine Le Pen set The projected result will mean ato face each other in a May 7 run- face-off between politicians withoff for the French presidency, radically contrasting visions. Mr.after coming first and second in Macron favors deregulation mea-Sunday’s first round of voting. sures that will be welcomed by Investors’ greatest worry had financial markets, while Ms. Lebeen that the far-left, Euroskeptic Pen wants to ditch the euro cur-Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who had rency and possibly pull out of thesurged in the polls in recent EU – markets’ biggest fear.weeks, could jump ahead of Mr. Even if Ms. Le Pen springs a sur-Macron and make it into the final prise on May 7, her “Frexit” ambi-run-off against Ms. Le Pen, giving tions will require constitutionalvoters the choice between two change that experts say will beradical candidates who would difficult, especially as her Nation-threaten the future of the EU. al Front party only has a handful That this worst-case scenario of federal lawmakers and is seenlooked likely to have been avert- as highly unlikely to win anythinged, therefore, was seen as positive like a majority in June’s parlia-for risk sentiment. While Sun- Voters line up at a polling station in Marseille in southern France on Sunday during the first round of the French mentary elections.day’s results looked broadly in presidential election. ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP/GETTY IMAGES June’s legislative elections alsoline with polls, failures to predict pose a challenge for Mr. Macron,the outcome of the Brexit referen- “We are likely to see a notable per cent to $1.09 (U.S.), its highest who wants to win a parliamenta-dum and U.S. elections had shak- tightening of European sovereign level since Nov. 10, the day after ry majority with his brand-newen investors’ trust in them. spreads and this would also be the results of the U.S. presidential party “En Marche!” (“Forward!”) And while the anti-EU Ms. Le We can now conclude that positive for the euro and stocks,” election, as some markets opened “We can now conclude thatPen looked likely to have made it [Frexit] is off the table, he said, although he added that in Asia. [Frexit] is off the table, assumingthrough to the second round, the exit polls must be viewed Against the yen, which investors that most people will now regardpolls have consistently shown Mr. assuming that most people with a degree of caution. tend to flock to when they per- Mr. Macron as the likely winner ofMacron will beat her in the run- will now regard Mr. Macron The spread between French 10- ceive high levels of risk, the euro round two,” said Marie Owensoff. as the likely winner of round year government bond yields and jumped as much as 3 per cent to Thomsen, head of economic “The assumption now is that their German equivalents has trade at a five-week high of research at Indosuez Wealth Man-centrist voters will rally around two. been a key gauge of investor sen- ¥120.905. agement in London.Macron, denying Le Pen the presi- timent around the French elec- “I think people will be fairly “But, the open question is stilldency and hence this will effec- Marie Owens Thomsen tion in recent months. confident that Macron will win in the June parliamentary election,tively be a pro-establishment, Head of economic research at That gap was widely expected to the second round, and the market what the future president’spro-European result which will be Indosuez Wealth Management narrow on Monday as investors will be relieved by that,” said government will look like andpositive for risk appetite on Mon- buy back into French debt, and as Insight fund manager and head of whether or not he will have aday morning,” said Rabobank’s safe-haven German bunds are currency investment in London, majority.” ................................................................head of rates strategy in London, sold off on higher risk appetite. Paul Lambert.Richard McGuire. The euro jumped as much as 2 “The euro will benefit from the Reuters

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while real estate booms of the downturn will only take us back that can gut a housing industry. region’s home-price spike. scale of Toronto’s current one are to where we were a year ago – But that bust was preceded by a It strongly suggests that already almost invariably followed by which is to say, to valuations that boom that had lasted four years – high debt burdens in the Toronto downturns, the biggest price were considered quite healthy. which, TD’s analysis suggests, is area have become acute over the surges didn’t necessarily result in Nevertheless, that kind of a fall the kind of time frame from past year, and thus at increased the hardest falls. would likely rattle consumer which long, hard falls are all but risk in a downturn. The vulner-DAVID PARKINSON More important than the scale confidence in a decidedly inevitable. ability of households to a pricedparkinson@globeandmail.com of the climb was its duration. unpleasant way. But it’s worth considering that slump has both spread and Longer stretches of real estate But a more modest pullback of this current 15-month spike rep- grown – the kind of thing that................................................................ excess tended to be followed by less than half that amount could resents only the extreme of a has the potential to both magnify

O kay, Torontonians (and Grea-

ter-Golden-Horseshoeians),we need to pinch ourselves. This both deeper and longer slumps. “The longer they last, the more time there is for financial pres- unlock demand from prospective buyers who have been scared off by the price spike, and convince much longer period of strong price gains in the Toronto mar- ket. Even before this surge, prices and accelerate price declines. These are the sorts of amplified financial pressures that Ms.dizzying dream of a housing sures to build,” Ms. Petramala some prospective sellers to put had risen close to 30 per cent Petramala alludes to in longer-boom – or nightmare, if you’re said in an interview. their properties on the market over the previous three years. In running housing booms.priced out of the market – is des- For Toronto’s current price rather than sit on them in hopes other words, the market came On the other hand, some of thetined to end. History, and gravity, spike, that’s good news, at least of still higher payoffs to come. into this 2016-2017 price spike at worst slumps in TD’s historicaland a healthy cross-section of so far. The scale of the price in- That would quickly restore some already elevated levels. analysis came in the U.S. housingeconomic experts say so. creases has been relatively large. normalcy to the market. At the same time, Canadian meltdown and financial crisis The key question, then, is how But prices have not been surging This is the coveted “soft land- household debt loads – as mea- nearly a decade ago. There were afar prices will come down once substantially above the market’s ing” that we hear about. But sured by debt as a percentage of lot of extenuating circumstancesthe hot air goes out of the bal- normal range of growth for very anyone who has been around disposable income – have been at play at that time, includingloon. The answer may lie in just long – just 15 months, Ms. Petra- long enough to witness an asset persistently north of 160 per cent, crucial weaknesses in the systemhow much longer Toronto’s mar- mala calculates. While there is a bubble or two knows that a true unprecedented heights, for the for financing home buyers,ket remains in the stratosphere. pretty wide range of experiences soft landing is much easier said past five years. While Statistics resulting in some epic price Toronto-Dominion Bank econo- in the historical data, TD’s analy- than done. When you start hear- Canada doesn’t break out data by drops in some regions. Many ofmist Diana Petramala recently sis suggests that booms of about ing a lot wishful thinking about province or city, there’s little these factors are not at play inexamined the price trends in nu- this duration often lead to cor- soft landings, you might want doubt the Greater Toronto Toronto’s current mark-up.merous local and provincial/state rections of less than 10 per cent. brace for impact. region’s booming housing prices Nevertheless, history suggestshousing booms in Canada and As Gluskin Sheff chief econo- Toronto witnessed its own hard have been a significant contribu- that the longer Toronto’s boomthe United States going back to mist David Rosenberg recently landing when a housing bubble tor to that. The surge in the continues, the more the risks of athe early 1980s, tracing them noted, when average prices in the of the late 1980s popped. Average national debt-to-income ratio hard fall will build. But if thethrough the dramatic climb and Greater Toronto Area are appre- prices not only tumbled close to over the past year or so, to a surge runs its course sooner rath-the subsequent down slope. ciating at a 30-per-cent annual 30 per cent, but the slump lasted record 167 per cent at the end of er than later, the pain may beWhat she concluded was that rate, even a dramatic 30-per-cent nearly five years – a time frame 2016, more or less parallels the both bearable and short-lived.

The many failings of Canada’s Missing from Wynne’s remedies:

supply-management system aregovernment’s fault, not farmers’ A plan to increase housing supply..................................................................................................................................... ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................

SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS and restaurant owners to become SEAN SPEER costs for the national economy. since Toronto’s single-familyDean of the Faculty of Management more competitive. The entire Munk senior fellow at the Home-ownership is associated detached-home construction hasand professor in food distribution food chain has been held back Macdonald-Laurier Institute with a raft of economic and been consistently low. Surely for-and policy at Dalhousie University for years. social benefits including better eign buyers and greedy landlords ................................................................ Also, supply management in educational and health out- can’t be held responsible for low................................................................

F or the first time, U.S. Presi-

dent Donald Trump acknowl- the dairy industry has led to a sense of institutionalized entitle- ment. The words “consumer” O ntario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s 16-point plan to address the growing housing comes, stronger families, safer communities, higher levels of civic participation and greater housing starts. At minimum, provincial and city governments should under-edged last week that he knows of and “customer” have no mean- affordability challenges in the wealth accumulation. There are take a detailed review of existingthe existence of supply manage- ing. Over the years, dairy farmers province is the policy equivalent few policy areas more likely to policies related to zoning and de-ment, also known by the global have become great cost manag- of searching for one’s keys under enable upward mobility and eco- velopment to better understandcommunity as Canada’s milk car- ers, as it is the only way for them a street lamp. New taxes on for- nomic opportunity than housing the implicit tradeoffs involvingtel. For years, dairy farmers in to earn more by doing the same eign buyers and expanded rent and home-ownership, and so housing construction and, inthis country have been resistant thing. By virtue of maintaining controls are a classic case of the affordability matters. turn, prices.to any change to Canada’s milk supply management, dairy farm- “streetlight effect” whereby poli- But unaffordable housing Environmental and quality-of-and cheese policies. But with ers are, for all intents and pur- ticians like the rest of us search prices can also have larger eco- life objectives may ultimately beNAFTA 2.0 on the way, Canadian poses, bureaucrats, not entre- for simple answers rather than nomic implications. Toronto and paramount, but at least we oughtdairy farmers are about to find preneurs. They work for the state, real ones. Vancouver are disproportionately to understand the costs in theout that decades of defending the not for the economy. Dairy Farm- The result is frustratingly pre- responsible for net new job cre- form of fewer homes and higherstatus quo was the wrong stra- ers of Canada has spent hun- dictable. The so-called “Fair ation in Canada. The labour mar- housing prices.tegy. dreds of millions of dollars over Housing Plan” will at best do ket in these cities is shouting at Other supply-related options It would have been fascinating the years promoting milk to Ca- nothing to address the underly- the top of its lungs for workers. include: greater flexibility forto be in the room when Mr. nadians, while the consumption ing supply issues affecting affor- Yet unaffordable prices are pre- “accessory dwelling units” andTrump got his first briefing on of fluid milk per capita has dability and at worst further cluding people from relocating other residential renovations;the Canadian dairy industry. dropped for almost three dec- distort the housing market. and are thus causing those cries expedited approvals for develop-Anyone who has tried to explain ades. No strategy whatsoever. A real solution would be for to go answered. ment and construction; adoptingsupply management to Ameri- Value chains and/or design provincial and municipal politi- Politicians at all levels are un- inclusionary zoning; furthercans would appreciate the reac- thinking are irrelevant concepts cians to look at the extent to derstandably in search of solu- investment in public transit; andtion. Mainly, it is one of disbelief. to dairy farmers. However, a which their own policies – partic- tions. But it’s much less under- ultimately more market-basedSupply management is about growing number are indeed ularly around zoning and devel- standable that the Wynne urbanism as witnessed in Hous-producing what we need for entrepreneurs and want to think opment – are contributing to government’s response is to ton.dairy, poultry and eggs. Quotas differently but are dragged down Toronto’s housing affordability focus only on demand-related Progress in these areas wouldare given to farmers so they can by the mediocre class. challenges. factors and neglect the role that invariably go further in address-produce the commodities As Canada was standing still, The extent of those challenges provincial and municipal policy ing the underlying problemsneeded, while extremely high the world changed. For years, is well-documented. Year-over- plays with regard to housing sup- than a foreign buyers’ tax, whichtariffs are placed on imported many have called for changes to year prices are up by one-third. ply. has only had short-term effects inproducts that could compromise supply management – in vain. The average detached home is That restrictive land-use regu- Vancouver, and rent controls,our delicate supply-and-demand But a sudden scrapping of supply now nearly $1.6-million. The con- lations or building codes that which have consistently failedequilibrium. Given that dairy management would be a mis- tagion is spreading from the city limit supply can lead to higher where they’ve been tried.accounts for 80 per cent of agri- take, because quotas are worth and is now reflected in rising housing prices is demonstrated The Ontario government’s plancultural cash receipts within sup- more than $30-billion. Unlike prices in surrounding commun- in a growing body of research. is thus inadequate and bound toply management, it has always Europe’s former system, ours has ities such as Guelph, Kitchener The role of zoning policies, urban be ineffectual because it over-attracted the most attention. a lot of fiscal baggage. Most and Hamilton. containment strategies and other looks the question of supply. A Such a program could be important, we are just north of The Ontario government is policies that affect supply is real, effective plan to address theexpected in an emerging market the United States, where dairy right to be concerned about generating considerable atten- province’s housing affordabilityor even in a highly centralized farms are much more competi- these trends. Unaffordable hous- tion across the intellectual and challenges – particularly in theeconomy. But no one would tive. Getting rid of supply man- ing prices not only hurt those political spectrum. Greater Toronto Area – willexpect such a program to exist in agement overnight would lead to priced out of the market, they Excluding supply-related require that policy makers seea developed economy such as a complete collapse of our dairy can come to carry economic reforms in the Fair Housing Plan their own role in creating theCanada’s. Since Europe eliminat- industry. For a strong agricultural costs in the form of opportunity is a major blind spot – especially problem and now fixing it.ed quotas several months ago, economy, Canada needs to main-Canada’s is now the only devel- tain some domestic productionoped economy in the world with capacity to support our proces- DILBERT ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................such a scheme. sors, where the value adding and Given our obsession with mar- innovation really occur.keting boards, we are accus- What is unfortunate is the cur-tomed to it. We see our boards as rent economic climate arounda natural, very effective model to the world, which is being drivenprotect our farmers by counter- by the Trump administration andvailing power down the food Brexit. We are about to see anchain. Farmers who are inherent- entire industry filled with dedi-ly price-takers can only get the cated workers on alert. Instead ofprice oligopolistic powers are developing a vision for our dairywilling to pay. Farmers are often sector and taking ownership ofhighly vulnerable. Often, dairy our own destiny, we are about tofarmers around the world are see changes based on someoneexposed to wild milk-price fluc- else’s terms.tuations and must adapt quickly. Jobs in rural Canada and youngBut supply management allows farmers are at stake. Dairy farm-our dairy farmers to rely on pre- ers have lobbied Ottawa hard for ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................

dictable revenues year in and decades to maintain the current Report on Businessyear out. A simple approach, real- system, and Ottawa listened andly, but maintaining such a system bowed. DEREK DeCLOET, EDITOR CLAIRE NEARY, SENIOR EDITOR MICHAEL BABAD, ASSISTANT EDITORfor more than five decades has However, let’s be clear, dairy MARK HEINZL, DEPUTY EDITOR ARON YEOMANSON, SENIOR EDITOR GILLIAN LIVINGSTON, ASSISTANT EDITORcome at a tremendous cost. farmers are not to blame – they DARCY KEITH, INVESTMENT EDITOR RITA TRICHUR, FINANCIAL SERVICES EDITOR SARAH EFRON, SMALL BUSINESS EDITOR First, our dairy industry is high- were just protecting assets and ROULA MEDITSKOS, SENIOR EDITORly inefficient. Several studies over defending the next generation. ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................

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It’s fantastic technology that then bring in technology. asked, “What if we apply process, they enable you to make them leaner helps us solve a client’s problem,and Matthew Peters, partner and technology and people to deliver a and more efficient, and allow you to from end to end. Judith McKayNational Innovation Leader, share is Chief Client and Innovation better solution?” think about different resources. Our clients are feeling cost and Officer at McCarthy Tétrault Clients also have issues with low- budget pressures; having to do moretheir perspectives. value contracts such as confidentiality What happens next? How are you with less. They’re looking to us for agreements or employee offer letters, preparing for the future? solutions, and we’re helping themHow do you see recent innova- which are usually created manually. 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creasing the rhetoric on Can-ada, it’s our belief that [a trade tion is rare but it can be found among stocks that lack analyst coverage or are too thinly trad-war] isn’t going to happen. Our ed for professional investors tocall all along has been that take positions.Trump needs a friend in the These “small, obscure, uglyregion, and that friend is going and scary” companies give indi-to be Canada. [What we’ve heard vidual investors a chance toin recent days about trade earn better returns than theregarding dairy, energy and lum- market, Mr. Desjardins believes.ber] is just noise. Trump needs In support of this view, he citesCanada for the oil, the paper, the on his website (www.netcashval-wood and the railroad, and those ue.com) a study by Victortypes of things. Wendl, author of The Net Current................................................................ Asset Value Approach to StockYou’re calling for a 20-plus-year Investing. It found that a portfo-bull run. What year are we in lio of stocks selling 75 per centnow? below NCAV turned $1 into $44,500 from 1951 to 2009. TheWe originally came out with that S&P 500 Index returned lesscall in 2009. I can build a scena- than a tenth of that amount.rio that the bull market hasn’t Mr. Desjardins’ holdings in-even started yet. The move to clude Spackman Equities Groupdate has been driven by momen- Inc., Zimtu Capital Corp., Inspiratum and multiple expansion. We Financial Inc. and Westernhaven’t seen real growth. We’ve Brian Belski, chief investment strategist at BMO Nesbitt Burns, considers Canadian banks to be the world’s ‘most Resources Corp. More details arehad eight years of zero growth. excellent stewards of capital.’ CHRISTOPHER GOODNEY/BLOOMBERG available on his website (a use-You can’t recess from zero ful resource for investors inter-growth. We don’t think there’s What will drive the next market We like banks and insurance since March, 2009, nobody has ested in the NCAV approach). ................................................................going to be a recession any time correction? companies, and insurance com- believed it. Fear and loathingsoon, given the fact that reces- panies in particular in Canada gets you nowhere. Best move ................................................................sions happen from higher levels This has been the most hated, over the U.S. because of the asset It was buying Ivanhoe Minesof GDP and are triggered by an discontented, discorded stock management side of things. We What sectors are you Ltd. stock in early 2016 at 60inversion of the yield curve. market rally in the history of love the banks that have U.S. underweight? cents (now trading just under................................................................ bull markets and it has every- exposure. Industrials, this is all $5). ................................................................What are your forecasts for thing to do with the fear and about a North American recov- Anything to do with yield. REITs2017? loathing of corporate America ery – the waste management, and utilities in Canada. We are Worst move and financial services. Investors railroad and aerospace compan- also underweight health care in In 2014, he was put through theOur base case is 2,350 for the should never base their decisions ies. Canada because there are better wringer with coal stocks (until ................................................................S&P 500. Our best-case scenario on fear or hatred. They should alternatives in the U.S. We like reversing course and buying putis 2,500. [The U.S. benchmark base them on fundamentals. Our Don’t you see a threat to Cana- telecom in Canada more than we options on them). The experi-ended last week just shy of call is that the big correction da’s banks from the overheated like telecom in the U.S. ence brought home the realiza- ................................................................2,350.] We don’t change targets everyone is waiting for isn’t national housing market? tion that an unpopularbecause the markets go up, only going to be Trump-related. Cor- Any parting advice for company can be a value trap ifif we see something change in rections are driven by funda- All of the bank CEOs are being investors? its balance sheet is dodgy or itsthe base, and that would be mentals or some defensive – of course. Canadian cash burn is unsustainable. ................................................................earnings. If we get this mythical geopolitical-type of surprise, banks are the most excellent You have to turn down the vol-pullback, what I call the “chicken which you can’t manage money stewards of capital in the world. ume on the noise. Noise doesn’t Advicelittle correction,” we’ll change for. You just buy high-quality They’re all too conservative. drive stocks, fundamentals drive “I think it is very hard to com-our forecast, potentially. For Can- companies and when the market They’re all very smart in terms of stocks. Investors need to deploy pete against somebody passion-ada, it’s 16,000. I think we’ll see gives you an opportunity to buy managing their money. The discipline and stick with it. ate in a discipline … ,” Mr.single-digit returns in Canada. them cheaper, you buy more of “chicken little” housing correc- Stocks are rarely linear for long. Desjardins says. “In financial[The TSX is at 15,614, so a rise to them. tion [sentiment] in Canada is Never try to time the market. If markets, it translates into find- ................................................................16,000 would imply a return of similar to the “chicken little, sky we do see some sort of pullback, ing your niche and capitalizingabout 2.5 per cent.] What sectors do you like today? is falling any day now” in the that’s an opportunity to buy on it.” ................................................................ Canada is on pretty firm foot- stock market in America. Every- your favourite names. ................................................................ing. Oil prices have solidified. We Our favourite sectors in America one can’t wait for housing to go Special to The Globe and Mail ................................................................think oil is mired within a $40- are financials by far, health care, down in Canada. They’ve been This interview has been edited$60 [(U.S.) per barrel] trading materials and industrials. In Can- willing it lower for five years. and condensed. Want to be in Me and My Money? ................................................................range for the next several years. ada, we are overweight finan- Think about the bull market in Contact Larry MacDonald atThat can be good for Canada. cials, materials and industrials. America in terms of stock prices; Special to The Globe and Mail mccolumn@yahoo.com

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been flawed. Multitasking gets us nowhere, and leads to an unfocused day that feels even more overwhelming and further confuses priorities. Our secondHARVEY SCHACHTER tactic is triaging – siftingharvey@harveyschachter.com through all the e-mails to figure out how best to deal with them,................................................................ and so, handling them too

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Ugly is the title of a classicmid-1960s movie. It also many times. That’s fine when you have five minutes between meetings to check the inbox,describes the daily battle with but not as a routine practice.your e-mail. Clint Eastwood, Yet, for many people, triage is awho portrayed the leading char- prime policy and Ms. Gomezacter in the film, was a fighter calculates it costs them 120with gumption and a clever hours a year in wasted effort –strategy to triumph. Likewise, three weeks’ worth of work. Theyou need to be a warrior to third approach is hoarding, DARRYL DYCK/THE GLOBE AND MAILemerge victorious from the keeping things in the e-mail boxthree faces of e-mail. to serve as to-do list and filing Ann Gomez, a Toronto pro-ductivity consultant, has worked cabinet. She teaches e-mail warriors THE LADDER ‘The values of the company are the sumwith thousands of people to three strategies that are thereform their instinctive, ineffec- obverse of those approaches: ................................................................tive e-mail practices to freethem from the overwhelmingdeluge. “It was so liberating andempowering for people that it 6 Dedicate: Instead of responding to e-mail as it comes in, attack it in batches at convenient of the values of the people at the company’inspired me to turn it into a times, chosen to fit your sched- ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................book,” she says in an interview ule, preferences and the needsabout her effort, The Email War- of those you connect with. Greg Malpass, 40, is the founder always been reluctant to accept We hire based on three mainrior. Usually that doesn’t mean and chief executive officer of [the] status quo. I always want to criteria: No. 1 is cultural fit. We The good: E-mail allows speed, checking more than once an Traction on Demand, a Burnaby, understand why. used to say it’s someone you’d ................................................................collaboration and transparency. hour – certainly not every five B.C.-based cloud consulting and like to have a beer with, butIt’s asynchronous, so the parties minutes – and in many jobs, it software-development firm. It In my first semester at Simon [now] we have a better term,to a conversation don’t have to can be every few hours or once works with Salesforce to provide Fraser University, I ended up which is someone you’d like toarrange to connect at the same or twice a day. That liberates a customer-relationship manage- with a 1.54-grade point average. I get to know better. If you don’ttime – they can reply according you to focus on your actual pri- ment platform that helps orga- had this notion that I wanted to pass that one, it’s a no-go. Theto their individual schedules. orities and to be less frenetic nizations consolidate info- be a doctor like my dad, but a next one is intelligence. It’s the The bad: E-mail consumes and more intent when you do rmation for easier access and sports-medicine doctor. My ability to absorb and retainmuch of our day. It has taken tackle e-mail. co-ordination. grades suggested that interest knowledge. The last one is skills. ................................................................on a life of its own, the volume Trust that people who urgent- wasn’t going to pan out. What we found is that if skills ................................................................ever-increasing and each missive ly need you will phone if you It’s kind of a funny story. The were put first, it would be a fail-seeming to demand an urgent don’t respond immediately. She physician that was supposed to Hitchhiking up the hill to school ure. You are getting someone forresponse. We are constantly stresses there is no one-size-fits- deliver me was a no-show. My one day, I got picked up by the what they are, versus what theychecking e-mail, without realiz- all principle; our jobs are quite dad was a resident at the hospital head of kinesiology. We started could become. ................................................................ing the grip it has on us – different and will require dif- [in New Westminster, B.C.] and talking and I explained my situa-research shows we check e-mail ferent response times. There he ended up delivering me. tion. He said, ‘Do you want to The values of the company are ................................................................10 times more often than we might be a day, for example, work in the clinic or run the clin- the sum of the values of theadmit. Asynchronicity is forgot- with a lot of back-and-forth I grew up in Nelson, B.C., as the ic?’ When he put it that way, I re- people at the company. Weten as we seek instantaneous re- over a contract being signed second-oldest of four kids. It was alized I’d wanted to run it. survey every one of our team ................................................................sponse. that requires more checking a great town to grow up in. I did members each year on their val- The ugly: E-mail is addictive, than normal. everything from rowing for the I immediately went to the busi- ues. That takes tremendous pres-eroding our attention span and 6 Do: Apply the one-touch prin- school, I swam competitively, ness faculty to declare my inter- sure off of me as a leader becausewith it our ultimate productiv- ciple – which is the opposite of spent a ton of time skiing. My est in pursuing a career in it’s not my values. My values areity. triage – handling each e-mail parents gave us free reign. From business. I didn’t realize you equally considered, along with Ms. Gomez says that “e-mail once. Respond immediately if the age of 13, we were able to do needed about a 3.5-grade point everyone else at the company. ................................................................functions like a slot machine in you have the time and since overnight hikes in the backcoun- average to get in. I made a deala Las Vegas casino.” We are con- you will now be assigning big- try. I had lots of freedom. with the dean – if I was nominat- I’m very motivated to find sys- ................................................................stantly refreshing the send- ger blocks of time to e-mail, ed on the executive of three tems and processes that canreceive button to see if some- longer responses are possible. All of us kids are entrepreneurs different business clubs, he share the burden of decisionthing exciting will arrive to lift 6 Defer: If the item needs further in some way. The credit goes to would allow me to go to each making. This allows us to operateour day. It feeds our curiosity, at study or time, put it on your our parents. No matter what we professor, and they could choose with agility and without hierar-a seemingly low cost (we don’t to-do list as its own priority. thought we were capable of if they would allow me to take chy. I don’t believe I’m smartercount our productivity). We And then transfer it to another doing, they would always re- their class. I negotiated to get than the average person at Trac-seek instant rewards, which in- folder, so you aren’t hoarding spond saying, ‘That sounds great. into every business class in uni- tion. I see my job as the protec-clude the noble cause of re- and can easily see new stuff I can’t wait to see when you versity. tor. My title is actually enabler. ................................................................ ................................................................sponding quickly to urgent arriving. accomplish that.’ ................................................................ ................................................................e-mails from colleagues and cli- I founded Traction on Demand The whole journey has been su-ents. These principles aren’t murky. In Grade 10, three teachers col- in 2007. It was after having set up per humbling. When I set out to But most e-mails aren’t actual- In three hours at her work- luded and decided they would a software system that would start Traction, I didn’t want to bely urgent. It’s a self-imposed shops, Ms. Gomez shows people allow me to go through an track online sales leads. For part of a company anymore.expectation, not the time frame how to implement them and in- unstructured learning process. four years, I hammered away Now, here I am. ................................................................most senders expect. “If you get cludes such guidance in her While most of my classmates on Salesforce. In January, 2010, I100 e-mails a day, not all are book. “There is an easier way to were going to class, I was allowed took on a huge contract from Special to The Globe and Mail ................................................................urgent. If everything is a priori- process e-mail and it’s well to do self-directed studies. I think CanPages. That’s when I broughtty, nothing is a priority,” she within your grasp,” she insists. they saw me not engaging in on my first temporary contractor. As told to Brenda Bouw. This ................................................................says. class and thought I was capable We have more than 300 people interview has been edited and The approaches we have cho- Special to The Globe and Mail of doing better than I was. I have working at Traction today. condensed.

THE QUESTION ance package or employment come may not happen. important this restriction is to ................................................................ ................................................................ offer that contains clauses limit- her to begin with. Most of my cli- My 22-year old daughter had been ing future employment options THE SECOND ANSWER ents fired under similar circum- ................................................................ a barista for the first five years, (short or long term), it is highly stances have zero interest in then promoted to supervisor advisable to seek legal advice. Daniel Lublin returning to work for the com- before being terminated for “poor Employers, however, cannot Partner at Whitten & Lublin pany that fired them. Therefore, performance.” She attempted prevent you from working. And Employment & Labour Lawyers, when I see a clause prohibiting repeatedly to resolve issues with unfortunately, what happened to Toronto reapplying for future employ- ................................................................ upper management and HR, but you is equally not unusual, where ment, I often advise my clients to was unsuccessful. The separation employees are dismissed for per- When employers claim that their ignore it and focus on the more package, which offered three- sonal reasons. It may not be doc- contractual clauses are “stan- important issue – the amount of months pay and benefits, con- umented as the reason, but dard,” they are applying a nego- severance the company is offer- tains a clause barring her from making it a without cause termi- tiating tactic designed to have ing as a result of the termination. applying to any of the chain’s nation entitles your daughter to a you believe that they have little Like all contracts, severance other locations or affiliated com- severance, and still qualifies her to no ability to change the lan- packages and all of the clausesAre you facing a burning issue at panies in future. She asked that for employment insurance guage. This is often just a ploy, within them are generally nego-work? Need help navigating that the clause be removed and was (pending she has been paying masking the fact that they just tiable. If your daughter is com-mine field? Let our Nine to Five refused. Is this legal? Is there any into it and has the correct num- don’t want to change the clause pletely hung up on having theexperts help solve your dilemma. way to have that clause removed? ber of insurable hours). or take it out, not that they can’t right to work for this company in ................................................................E-mail your questions to She seemed to do the right do it. the future, despite how theyninetofive@globeandmail.com. THE FIRST ANSWER thing by discussing it with human Legally, the employer has every treated her, then she should not ................................................................ resources, so it is important to right to include terms that will sign the documentation and take Eileen Dooley keep everything documented benefit it, as part of paying out a her chances that she would Vice-president, VF Career for proof and ease of understand- severance package. A term stating achieve a better deal in court, or Management, Calgary ing. Please keep in mind that that your daughter will never she should try to negotiate with ................................................................ sometimes, even with the most apply for a job with the company the company further and seek Although your question requires complete investigation from is a little unusual, but not un- other improvements to her deal a legal opinion, from a human- human resources, a decision heard of and definitely not illegal. (i.e. more money and benefits) if resources perspective, these may be overruled by someone Your daughter has to decide the employer is truly not pre- clauses are not unusual. Whenev- higher up in a company and whether she wants to work at this pared to amend this one conten- er an employee receives a sever- unfortunately, your desired out- company in the future and how tious term.M1 T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L • M O N D AY , A P R I L 2 4 , 2 0 1 7

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seller, Lean In, helped to fuelnew Ivey Business School and Equality Management Sys- tems, is published in Human Resources Management and was welcoming more women into leadership, they develop systems and processes that are also ben- and promotion within a firm. The researchers found that the more thoroughly integrated such yin/yang connectedness.” That is, “People sometimes fear that if we welcome histor-research that underscores the co-authored by Ivey assistant eficial for other historically mar- practices are, the more diversity ically excluded groups, hard-value of actively supporting di- professor Cara Maurer and Yang ginalized groups,” she says. will show up in employment working members of historicallyversity, equality and inclusion in Yang, an assistant professor of Dr. Konrad’s latest research statistics (and, ultimately, trans- included groups will suffer.”the workplace. management at Rowan Univer- tested a theory that suggests late to a more positive bottom The research says that’s not so. “She made it okay to ask ques- sity in Glassboro, N.J. there are synergies among indi- line). The findings show that rich di-tions about why it is taking so In an e-mail, Dr. Konrad says vidual organizational practices. Dr. Konrad says she was most versity and inclusion programslong to attain gender diversity in the resulting push by many An aggressive search for a high- surprised to see the theory sup- result in a positive impact onleadership among our top cor- large businesses to move more quality diverse candidate, for port workers with disabilities, financial performance and thatporations. She also made it not women into leadership positions example, would not be enough who “have been treated as sort benefits everyone. “When theokay for business to do noth- has had a broader-than-antici- to bring diversity to senior of a separate category of people company is doing well, there areing,” says Alison Konrad, a pated effect on office diversity, leadership. The practice must requiring disability-focused more rewards across the board,”professor of organizational also helping people with dis- also be supported by various accommodations for success.” Dr. Konrad says. ................................................................behaviour at the London, Ont., abilities, different religious practices – from inclusive inter- Ultimately, Dr. Konrad says,school. groups, younger workers and viewing techniques to work-life she’s looking to change thinking Special to The Globe and Mail

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Inspectors: ‘What happens when [buyers] find out they have a $20,000 fix?’.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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60 per cent to 70 per cent ofdeals include a home inspection norm, as buyers priced out of oth- er regions make aggressive moves to close deals in areas nearby. Home inspectors warn that for- going inspections puts buyers at risk. house … What happens when they find out they have a $20,000 fix?” eign home buyers, will cool the housing market. “I hope it has a positive impactclause, says John Hansen, who The number of home inspec- “You wouldn’t buy a car without The effects are starting to spill on housing availability and affor-runs a home inspection business tions Mr. Hansen says he conduct- taking it for a test drive,” Mr. Par- over to other businesses as well, dability for the average homein Hamilton. “This year, I don’t ed in March was fewer than half of ish says. The same rationale, he Mr. Parish says. Electricians and buyer.” ................................................................think it’s even 5 per cent. The the amount he did a year prior. says, should apply for a purchase plumbers who receive businessmarket in Hamilton is crazy.” It’s making it harder for home that is much bigger. following results from a home The 2017 Globe and Mail Small According to March data, Ham- inspectors to bring in money, he Mr. Hansen says he worries that inspection are feeling the impact Business Summit is a one-day con-ilton home prices shot up 28 per says, and some have gone out of buyers – particularly young, first- from the lack of referrals. ference of insightful sessions, provencent from the previous year. In a business. Mr. Hansen says he’s time home buyers – are placing Mr. Carson is hoping the Ontar- business growth strategies andcity where the average price is been relying more heavily on his themselves in a position of finan- io government measures innovative ideas from the country’shalf that of Toronto, bidding wars work on septic, well and fireplace cial vulnerability. “They tap out announced on Thursday, which brightest business leaders. Fullare increasingly becoming the inspections to keep him afloat. all their resources to get their include a 15-per-cent tax on for- details at globesummits.ca.

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NOTHING TO HIDE such a severe conversion disor- der (a mental illness with physi- cal manifestations) that she couldn’t walk, had trouble dig- esting food and had such in- tense migraines and involuntaryUnapologetically feminine, ZOSIA BIELSKI Jenner writes in the new mem- muscle spasms that her eyelids ................................................................ oir The Secrets of My Life, in had fused shut. She applied forproudly Republican and trans:Caitlyn Jenner’s new memoir B ruce Jenner is 10 years old and home alone. He walks into his mother’s bedroom clos- which she refers to herself as Caitlyn after her transition, in the spring of 2015, and Bruce a physician-assisted death under a constitutional amendment before the government passedreveals the Olympic decathlete as et, brushing a hand over the beforehand. its MAID law last June. cotton dresses. He selects one, Before transitioning publicly, Alas, for Maier-Clayton, he hadan outsider finally comfortable careful to mark its exact posi- Jenner’s is a lonely life of con- to apply under the more restric- tion with a piece of paper, so cealment. Trying to “exorcise tive MAID rules. MAID goesin her own skin no one discovers. He accessoriz- what was living inside,” Jenner beyond the Carter criteria of es with one of Mom’s scarves marries and divorces three “grievous and irremediable” suf- and with shoes belonging to his women, trying on their clothing, fering that is intolerable to the sister, Pam, and dabs on some too. The wives are left deeply patient. It requires a patient to lipstick. After surveying the confused, as are the children. be in an irreversible decline and ensemble in a mirror, the child After their makeup starts going to have a reasonably foreseeable......................................................................................................... ventures out of the red brick missing, young Kylie and Ken- natural death.FREDERICK M. BROWN/GETTY IMAGES apartment building in tiny Tar- dall enable a security camera on Martin, Page 4 rytown, N.Y., making it around their computer, only to discover the block. Dad in drag – they are “too The adventure is both thrilling young to understand.” INSIDE and painfully alienating: It’s In the eighties, the Olympic 1959, and Bruce has no idea decathlete crisscrosses America, Neighbourhood watch what’s going on. delivering corporate motivation- “Even at the age of ten, my al speeches to stay afloat finan- The best way to handle friction in life had become a sealed box, cially. On these occasions, the family – especially when they and over time, the sides would Jenner dons a suit with a bra live on the same block – might become even higher and ulti- and pantyhose underneath. be to kill them with kindness. mately impossible to scale,” Jenner, Page 5 Damage control, Page 4.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

When an opera festival’s drama is offstage

With a new position as general director of the Vancouver Opera, Kim Gaynor couldn’t let her leg injury take the spotlight.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

N ot that there’s ever a good

time to fall from your horse,but when it happened to KimGaynor, it was particularly in-convenient. Gaynor was exactly threemonths away from launching abrand new opera festival in Van-couver when she fell from herbeloved horse Gin Fizz de St.Germain. She had brought himover from Switzerland when sheleft the Verbier Festival to takeon the position of general direc-tor of Vancouver Opera. It was aserious accident that resulted ina tibial plateau fracture, withcracks down her leg almost tothe bottom. She was in hospitalinitially for two weeks; but afew days after her release, shehad to return because of aserious infection. “Six weeks of antibiotics; I justfinished. And painkillers. It wasa very, very painful injury. Soone week I’ve been heavy-drug-free,” Gaynor says during an in-terview just before Easter week-end. She pulls up her left pantleg, revealing an enormous scar. But even with 14 inches of Kim Gaynor, the head of the Vancouver Opera festival, is seen at the opera’s facilities on April 13. Gaynor took a hard fall off her horse, which landed hermetal in her, Gaynor still had an in the hospital for a few weeks, three months before the festival’s launch, making the festival planning a challenge. RAFAL GERSZAK/THE GLOBE AND MAILopera festival to plan, no easytask in an arts environment better than my dog,” she says. “I With the hopes of creating a fes-faced with aging audiences and MORE TO SEE don’t know how long I’ll keep tival feel on the outdoor plaza, ................................................................................................................................declining sales. With no WiFi in them, because actually my the possibility of rain is notthe hospital, friends wheeled In addition to the three opera student composers and writ- entire house and car and dog thrilling. And the Queen Eliza-her over to the closest Starbucks productions, here are five ers collaborate with two sing- are covered in little sparkles.” beth Theatre, the venue for Otel-so she could get some work worthy events at the VO ers and a pianist to create Gaynor will certainly still be lo and Dead Man Walking ondone. Further complicating mat- Festival. new chamber opera works. using those crutches (perhaps alternating dates, was not built ..........................................................ters, she was robbed twice dur- May 3, 5, 10 and 12, 3 pm, restyled) when the inaugural to accommodate works in reper-ing her ordeal – her phone and Ethical Justice in Festival Tent Vancouver Opera Festival opens tory. There are no wings or ..........................................................e-reader stolen from her hospi- the 21st Century on April 28. Taking place prima- backstage areas that can ade-tal bedside while she was in a You’ve seen the film, now Ute Lemper rily at the Queen Elizabeth The- quately store the sets. So thedrug-induced sleep; and back at meet its inspiration. Sister The legendary German singer atre, the Vancouver Playhouse company commissioned a singlehome, while immobile upstairs, Helen Prejean, author of the makes a rare Vancouver ap- next door and on the Queen set that would serve both showsan intruder entered the house book Dead Man Walking, joins pearance with her show Last Elizabeth Plaza, the festival is (but decorated so that it will beand walked off with her com- a panel to discuss the death Tango in Berlin, with songs by packed with promising program- unrecognizable from opera toputer. With replaced electronics, penalty, incarceration and Piaf, Brel and others. May 4, 8 ming. opera).she did as much work as she their alternatives. April 29, pm. Orpheum Theatre (with a There are three core produc- Then there’s the all-importantcould from the hospital and 4:30 pm, Festival Tent free talk May 5, 4:30 pm at the tions: Verdi’s Otello, Mozart’s box office. VO moved to a festi- ..........................................................home. Festival Tent) The Marriage of Figaro and Jake val model to ensure the future .......................................................... “I knew that would all be un- The Carmina Burana Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, with viability of the company as itder control and people kept me Sing-Along Tanya Tagaq libretto by Terrence McNally, deals with universal challengesup to date,” she says now. Watch from your seat or reg- Never miss an opportunity to based on the book by Sister Hel- facing the opera world. Gaynor“Obviously, had there been big ister to rehearse and perform see Tagaq, the Polaris Prize- en Prejean. Prejean herself will says tickets are selling, but sheproblems, it would have been with the Vancouver Bach winning throat singer who appear at one of the comple- concedes the buzz has beendifferent because I would have Choir and sing onstage. May puts on a mind-blowing mentary festival events, many slow to build.been not able as well as normal- 3, 8 pm, QET show. May 12, 8 pm, Vogue taking place in the Festival Tent “It’s only just now that we’re ..........................................................ly to deal with them, but we Theatre on the Queen Elizabeth Plaza. starting to see press coming out ..........................................................haven’t really run into any of New Works Project The Plaza will be animated with about the festival, so I’m stillthose yet.” In four open workshops, UBC Marsha Lederman an opera-inspired video install- really waiting for the big excite- Still, it was an awful lot to ation by artist Paul Wong on ment,” she says. “I think festi-deal with as the inaugural Van- enormous screens, playing until vals, for them to be successful,couver Opera Festival around on my crutches as best I Mirhady, VO’s head of costumes, the action shuts down each have to have a level of buzzapproached. Not only is it a new can,” she says. came to her rescue. “She took night. And unlike many other that happens. Now, it’s a newfestival, which has replaced the As crutches go, they’re quite my crutches and brought them events that take place in that festival so that’s harder totraditional season model at VO, lovely. Gaynor had finally been back at the end of the board space, the festival will not be generate … but I’m still hopingbut Gaynor herself is also new back on her feet – well, one of meeting bedazzled,” Gaynor cut off from view with fencing. that that will happen. So that’sto the company, having taken them, anyway – making a grad- says. Gaynor had intended to “I wanted to have something the anticipation thing rightover from James Wright only ual entry back into the work- use them like that only for the open and inviting,” Gaynor says. now: wondering ‘will the firethis past July. “There’s never a place when she attended a gala, but the ultimate fashion “I wanted a made-you-look catch?’ ” ................................................................good time to smash your tibia, board meeting ahead of the accessory has turned out to be a effect.” There are challengesbut it’s kind of the worst time company’s big gala on March 31. fine ice-breaker. “Everywhere I with putting on this festival that The Vancouver Opera Festival runswith the new job and the festi- She was bemoaning the ugliness go, people smile and talk to me. don’t involve bone fractures – April 28 to May 13 (festival.van-val coming up. But I will hobble of her crutches when Parvin It’s a conversation starter. It’s some quite Vancouver-specific. couveropera.ca).

Prince Hamlet of Kurt Cobain about her. The effect of this is twofold. OnWritten by William Shakespeare Early on and in her more upset the problematic side, it canDirected by Ravi Jain scenes, she has a tendency to make the show feel as though itStarring Christine Horne and speak in a flat tone and too fast is taking place in the past tense,Dawn Jani Birley for her torrent of words to com- which is compellingly fatalisticAt the Theatre Centre in Toronto municate much beyond numb- in certain moments, but merely### ness. flaccid in others. (Thomas Ryder When Hamlet’s mind is fully Payne’s unwavering underscor-................................................................ awake, however, Horne is in fine ing doesn’t help – imposing anREVIEWED BY form – emotionally accessible in unfortunate stamp of samenessJ. KELLY NESTRUCK introspection, very funny when to the tone.)................................................................ she dips into a kind of slacker Thematically, however, this

N ormally, it would be a bad

thing to come out of Hamletraving about Horatio – but direc- sarcasm. This Hamlet seems pet- rified of sex, keeping to pecks with Ophelia – and imagining new structure draws your atten- tion to how much of Hamlet is about silences and secrets – andtor Ravi Jain’s bent, bilingual the romps between his mother, how much is the action really isproduction of William Shake- Gertrude (Karen Robinson), and people tattling or telling.speare’s tragedy now on in uncle as a neon-pink nightmare. It struck me here that Hamlet’sToronto is blessedly far from We see this mental image of journey is from making Horatio“normal.” “incestuous pleasure” at the swear to “never make known Prince Hamlet, as this Why Not back of the stage – before Horne what you have seen tonight” toproduction in association with Dawn Jani Birley, right, plays Horatio in Prince Hamlet during a dress unleashes an unsettling scream him making his best friendSoulpepper is billed, begins rehearsal in Toronto on April 18. CHRIS YOUNG/THE CANADIAN PRESS that leads her into “to be or not promise to “tell my story.” Thewhere Shakespeare ended, with to be.” question of whether to trustHoratio standing amid the production. But for a hearing playing the title role – as far as I Having just seen into Hamlet’s what you see or what you hear isbloodbath of the fencing match, audience member such as can tell, the first female Hamlet brain, we feel the deep, deep omnipresent even as the dualbeginning to tell those who just myself, Birley – who gives the in a major professional produc- dread in his fear of “what ASL and English tracks of theshowed up what happened. most evocative, emotionally tion in Canada. dreams may come” after we show deconstruct the very di- “So shall you hear of carnal, engaged performance here – But the casting of Horne shuffle off this mortal coil. chotomy of hearing versus see-bloody and unnatural acts, of adds a sensational second layer doesn’t really register as radical Horne connects with and com- ing, what it is to be an audienceaccidental judgments, casual to the show with her gestural because the gender of the actors municates this well-worn speech (one who hears) versus a spec-slaughters, of deaths put on by language. in this production rarely match in a way I thought was not lon- tator (one who sees).cunning and forced cause,” he I’ll never forget her haunting up with the characters. Instead ger possible. There are some wonderful sec-says. retelling of Ophelia’s drowning, of two women in the show, here As Hamlet says when he sees ondary performances – to single Or, rather, she signs. leaning backward slightly, her there are only two men in the the ghost of his father, “The time out only two: Maria Vacratsis’s Horatio is played by the actor hand bouncing above her nine-person cast; one, Rick Rob- is out of joint” in Jain’s adapta- short and short-tempered Polo-Dawn Jani Birley – a Saskatche- mouth, creating bubbles in the erts, is playing Claudius, while tion – which sticks to Shake- nius is an officious lackey whowan-born deaf artist who has air – a stream, and then a few in- the other, Jeff Ho, is playing speare’s words, but remixes sits halfway between Whitehad an extensive career in Fin- dividual ones and then nothing. Ophelia. Gender-blind casting, them. Designed by Lorenzo House press secretary Sean Spic-land. Once we flash back to the This was much more chilling like colour-blind casting, works Savoini, his production on a er and Melissa McCarthy’s popu-start of Shakespeare’s play, she than Gertrude’s famous retelling best when it is pervasively play- wooden platform surrounded by lar parody of him; and Hannahremains on stage for the entire of the same ever is; as is so often ful like this. piles of dirt is told as a flashback, Miller stands out staying in theshow as narrator, sometimes the case, even Shakespeare’s Horne’s Hamlet makes a strong but also contains flashbacks background sharply drawing atranslating Shakespeare’s lines best-known scenes can reach us first impression – arriving late to within flashbacks. So, for exam- variety of smaller roles includingdirectly into American Sign Lan- in surprising new ways through the stage for the preshow ple, we cut between Ophelia’s in- Guildenstern and the Playerguage (ASL), sometimes speak- translation. announcement. Wearing a shape- teractions with Hamlet, and her Queen. ................................................................ing to all with a more universal I walked into Prince Hamlet less black shirt with long sleeves telling her father, Claudius andpoetic physicality. expecting the most notable she can tuck her hands into; her Gertrude about them – Andre du Prince Hamlet (theatrewhy- For deaf spectators, she’ll be aspect of Jain’s production to be blond hair, wavy and at grunge- Toit’s lighting making all of this not.org) continues to April 29the primary entry point to this the fact that Christine Horne is singer length, there’s something crystal clear. at the Theatre CentreT H E G LO B E A N D M A I L • M O N D AY , A P R I L 2 4 , 2 0 1 7 O HEALTH & FITNESS GLOBE LIFE & ARTS • L3

Fuelling on the fly: It’s truly gut-check time

For endurance athletes, training the stomach to adapt to calorie-rich snacks is key to an eat-and-run (or cycle) regimen.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

A mong the lesser-known skills

that ex-track star MikeWoods has picked up in his fiveyears as a professional cyclist isthe ability to scarf down an arbo-rio rice cake loaded with sugar,coconut oil and cream cheese inthe middle of the peloton, ideallybefore a sudden breakawaymakes it too hard to eat andbreathe at the same time. “Going from running to cycling,there was a big learning curve inall aspects of the sport, and dietwas certainly one of them,” saysWoods, a 30-year-old Ottawanative who turned to cycling in2011 after a series of stress frac-tures derailed his running career. Your digestive system can adapt and respond to repeated challenges, so you can eat and run with fewer problems. ISTOCK On the track, Woods was a mid-dle-distance specialist: His 3:57 driving alongside him during muscles. There are two key types ning motion. For Woods, eatingmile from 2005 still stands as a RACE CAKES training runs in the mountains of of transporter that move carbo- plain yogurt every morning and ..........................................................Canadian junior record. But as a Ethiopia and handing him bot- hydrate across the intestinal wall; taking a sport supplement fromcyclist with top pro team Can- The “soigneurs” on the Can- tles of concentrated carbohydrate by training while consuming car- Sound Probiotics has helped withnondale-Drapac, he’s often com- nondale-Drapac cycling team solution, in an attempt to im- bohydrate, you’ll increase the digestion. And for the last twopeting for several hours at a prepare special rice cakes for prove his ability to absorb carbo- number of these transporters in days before a race, he follows atime; his road race at last sum- Mike Woods’s mid-race feed- hydrate on the run. the intestine, as well as their effi- low-residue “five-year-old’s diet”mer’s Rio Olympics took more bags. When Gebrselassie set his first ciency. with no vegetables, red meat orthan six hours. That means Here is the recipe: marathon world record, in 2007, In practice, one of the best other high-fibre foods, in order torefuelling on the go is crucial to 6 500 g of short grain rice he was able to stomach far more ways to train your gut is to sim- reduce bloating.his success – even though, as 6 1 litre of water fluid and carbohydrate than dur- ulate your race plan in training. During races, in addition to ricemany would-be marathoners and 6 1 tbsp of sugar ing his earlier attempts at the dis- Start by figuring out how much cakes, he’ll receive a mid-racecyclists discover, eating and hard 6 a pinch of cinnamon or vanil- tance. Over the course of just fuel you’re aiming for; for races feedbag with a banana, an OTEexercise don’t always mix well. la extract more than two hours, he downed longer than two hours, a goal of sports bar and perhaps a waffle By some estimates, 30 per cent 6 1 tbsp of coconut oil two litres of sports drink and about 60 grams of carbohydrate filled with Nutella or speculoos.to 50 per cent of endurance ath- 6 300 g of low-fat cream cheese water, as well as six gels. an hour is ideal but challenging And he carries gels with him,letes regularly experience gas- Cook the rice, water, sugar, Training the gut focuses on two for most people. which are easier to swallow whentrointestinal problems, such as and cinnamon/vanilla. Mix key goals, Jeukendrup explains. Then figure out how much you the pace is hard.bloating, nausea and diarrhea. the cooked rice with coconut First, to reduce bloating and full- can tolerate in training – and All that has taken a while toOne solution, according to a oil and cream cheese. Wrap ness, you want to ensure that gradually, over the course of master. But then again, a CT scanreview published last month in the resulting slab in cling film, food and fluid exits your stom- weeks, push the limits of what after the Olympics revealed thatthe journal Sports Medicine, is cool it overnight in the fridge, ach quickly. Training immediate- you find comfortable and tolera- Woods had raced on an undiag-“training the gut.” then cut into chunks. ly after a meal, or while ingesting ble. nosed fracture in his left femur, .......................................................... Just like your muscles and deliberately high volumes of flu- Ultimately, Jeukendrup notes, the consequence of a mass wipe-heart, your digestive system can Alex Hutchinson id, will help speed stomach emp- digestive challenges vary greatly out in the Tour of Poland earlieradapt and respond to repeated tying. between individuals. You may that summer.challenges, so that you can eat It will also likely reduce your struggle to reach 60 grams an So compared with the intrica-and run with fewer problems. example, competitive eaters can perception of how full you feel, hour, but if gut training increases cies of peloton etiquette and bike The idea that the gut is adap- eat 70 hot dogs in 10 minutes: by even if there’s still fluid in your your limits from 20 to 40, that’s handling, maybe learning to eattable has long been recognized progressively stretching their stomach. still a significant gain. You can Nutella waffles on a bike isn’tanecdotally, says Asker Jeuken- stomachs through techniques Second, once the food and fluid also experiment with different such a tough job after all. ................................................................drup, the author of the review, such as drinking large volumes of have passed from the stomach to forms of fuel: While cyclists tendwho is currently a visiting profes- fluid. the small intestine, you want to to favour a mix of solid and liq- Alex Hutchinson’s latest book issor at Loughborough University Jeukendrup has worked with speed its absorption into your uid food, most runners have Which Comes First, Cardio orin Britain and the head of mys- athletes, including retired mara- bloodstream, where it can be trouble with solids due to the Weights? Follow him on Twitterportscience.com. That’s how, for thon great Haile Gebrselassie, quickly delivered to fuel-starved up-and-down jostling of the run- @sweatscience

This is part of a series examining are a resource and not the ene-the mental-health experience in my. They don’t have authority toCanada’s workplaces. This series change policies or benefits.supports The Globe and Mail andMorneau Shepell’s Employee Rec- 6 2. When off work, understandommended Workplace Award, what your employer believes iswhich honours companies that put the most important job for you.the health and well-being of their Your sole job when you are offemployees first. Winners for 2017 work is to do what you can to getwill be announced at a conference well. This can include counsell-in late spring. Sign up to receive an ing, exercise, diet, rest and fol-e-mail about registration for 2018 lowing a treatment plan thatat employeerecommended.com. may include skill development................................................................ such as taking coping courses.BILL HOWATT Using your time off productive-ALLISON COWAN ly is likely the single best predic-................................................................ tor for which employees will

H ave you ever felt you’re hav-

ing a difficult time going towork owing to your mental successfully return to work and be able to get well and off disa- bility.health? Your employer invests in disa- It’s estimated that 500,000 bility management programs toemployees call in sick every day help employees get back to work,in Canada because of mental ill- not to create a system that sup-ness. Depression and anxiety cost ports them to be off for an indef-the Canadian economy at least inite period. Most programs$32.3-billion a year, and $17.3-bill- come to an end and if a personion a year is lost in foregone GDP uses all the time allotted theybecause of lost productivity, will transition from short-term toaccording to a recent Conference long-term disability.Board of Canada report. When aperson with a mental-health 6 3. Get ready to returnissue needs to take time off from If you are taking sick days because you can’t handle work, it may be time to get some help. ISTOCK to work.work, their organization’s attend- If you are off work with a mentalance-management policy will aged internally or externally, Accountability should be planning to return to illness, find out what you need todefine their leave options, but have a common goal – to help work and have a sense of that successfully get back to work. It’semployees also have an impor- employees get better and back to Every employee owns their men- timing. This will help you define helpful to work with your casetant responsibility in this pro- work as quickly as possible. tal health, but it’s not advisable what’s needed for success. It’s worker to frame and design acess. These systems are driven by poli- to self-diagnose and develop important to be clear on your return-to-work plan that engages................................................................ cies that are designed to hold your own treatment plan. It is skills and abilities, and what your direct manager as well asAwareness employees accountable to pro- always best to work with your accommodations and support human resources. vide evidence that they are in- medical doctor, in consultation will help you in your role. It’s beneficial to stay in touchIf you’re struggling to be at work, deed sick and have a treatment with a mental-health profession- with trusted peers at work andthis may be an important sign plan to get well. al, to determine the best treat- 6 1. Understand your employer’s your manager.that something is not going right, Attendance- and disability- ment and how time off work will attendance and disability man- This helps to keep you pluggedand you could benefit from sup- management programs provide a help you, and what you will do agement program. in to your community and feelport. Taking some time off work type of insurance for employees with your time off to help you Regardless of your employer’s connected. You don’t need tomay be what you need, but a to get help in times of need, but get better. Taking two months off program, it’s valuable to learn share your personal health issueweek off work may not achieve they shouldn’t be seen as an en- and doing nothing other than sit- how it works. The objective is to with people; just providing gen-the outcome you need to get titlement. They provide a helpful ting at home likely will not help support employees to successful- eral updates and asking what’shealthy. benefit that can provide time to you cope when you return to ly and safely return to work as new is one way to keep yourself Many employees who call in get well when the leave is used work. Your employer may in fact quickly as possible. Case workers plugged in. ................................................................sick a day here and there because correctly. It is well recognized have supports in place to help. facilitate an organization’s at-they’re not mentally up to it are, that getting help sooner leads to These supports could include tendance and disability manage- Bill Howatt is the chief researchin essence, self-diagnosing. If this better outcomes for employees extended health-benefit plans, ment program and will work and development officer of workis your strategy and you start to with an illness. structured stay-at-work pro- directly with you with a set of force productivity with Morneaucall in sick on a regular basis, this These programs are not grams, workplace accommoda- defined rules. Shepell in Toronto. Allison Cowan iscoping mechanism will likely designed to get employees out of tions and assistance in getting Their primary goal is to be sup- the director of Workplace Healthdraw attention. You may also be work because they don’t like medical treatment. portive and to hold you account- and Total Rewards Research at The ................................................................missing out on the supports that what they’re doing. Employees able to ensure you are doing Conference Board of Canada. ................................................................your employer has in place. Or- who don’t comply with the rules Action what you can to get back toganizations that have a defined outlined by the program are risk work. Add your voice and take part in ourattendance- or disability-man- of losing the benefit or being dis- When you leave work because of Typically, you will be assigned a short mental-health survey:agement system, whether man- ciplined by their employer. a mental-health issue, you case worker to support you. They (tgam.ca/mentalhealthsurvey)L4 • GLOBE LIFE & ARTS O T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L • M O N D AY , A P R I L 2 4 , 2 0 1 7

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When irksome in-laws Martin: Not all pain is physical

live in the neighbourhood

9 That was a crucial difference

in the medical assistance E.F. and Maier-Clayton received. film, we watch her apply for med- ical assistance in dying, under Belgium’s 2002 euthanasia law,Take the high road – confronting them will only make things worse Maier-Clayton, who was diag- including interviews with her nosed with obsessive compulsive psychiatrist Dr. Lieve Thienpont. disorder, generalized anxiety and Finally, despite Thienpont’s reluc-.......................................................................................................................................................................................................... a conversion disorder, similar to tance, de Schutter secures the get so many questions about fam- did to you until about the age of E.F.’s, “did not qualify under our right to end her life with a doc- ily and neighbours is because of 28, at which point you have to let law,” Wiebe said. That meant she tor’s help. one thing they have in common: the issues go, and try to become “couldn’t even assess him,” for Here’s the thing. Now that she You can’t choose them. the best possible version of your- MAID, using the clinical guide- had death as an option if her des- And you do tend to have to deal self. lines to determine “mental suf- pair worsened, de Schutter felt with them. I suppose you can And it doesn’t sound as if your fering” that she had developed calmer, as she explained to theDAVID EDDIE avoid/turn your back on family. husband is being his best possible over 40 years as a practising phy- audience at a Canadian screeningDAMAGE CONTROL Harder to avoid neighbours, version of himself. sician. of the documentary last fall. Shedamage@globeandmail.com though, as you suggest. Maybe your in-laws aren’t ei- Wiebe says helping a patient believes that there will eventually We had neighbours once who ther, throwing around terms such die should never be an easy call, a come a time when she will have................................................................ had an issue with us. They felt we as “mentally ill.” But that’s on decision that is “absolutely” more an assisted death, but for now,THE QUESTION had scooped them on a piece of them. onerous when the suffering is she is hopeful enough to carry................................................................ real estate (our current domicile) And who knows? Maybe your caused by a mental illness rather on. Road to Mercy producerMy husband has recently decided they had their eye on and a right husband is in the right. (As usual, than, say, terminal cancer. But Nadine Pequeneza told me thatto go to battle against his parents to and would accept no peace of- I wish I had more information: difficult should not mean impos- de Schutter has written a bookregarding a whole slew of child- ferings or even an offer of the God, or the devil, depending who sible. E.F.’s suffering was more about her experience and ishood issues. While I support him, house itself. you talk to, is in the details.) enduring and overtly demonstra- working with caregivers to in-I know very well his parents will What made it extra horrible was But dollars to doughnuts, con- ble than Maier-Clayton’s, who crease their understanding ofnever change. What’s worse is I I would see the not-speaking-to- fronting them will only make was 30 years younger, but that mental illness in people such ashave now heard that they think me wife of the couple every- things worse – and could lead to a doesn’t mean his pain wasn’t real. herself.that I am a bad influence and that where. For some reason, whenev- permanent rift. “I believe that Adam’s suffering Wiebe has seen the same phe-I must be “mentally ill,” because er our eyes met, my hand would Of course, he could find a way was terrible and it was probably nomenon with her own patients.they think I am the one pushing pop up like a marionette and my to approach them in a delicate, irremediable,” she said. She re- “They are so grateful to be givenhim into these confrontations. face would stretch in a reflexive circumspect, kinder-gentler fash- mains “very conflicted” about the permission [to die], and thenWorse still, we all live in the same rictus. She would just glare and ion and get it all off his chest. Maier-Clayton’s relatively young they don’t need it, or they need itneighbourhood. I feel sick to my turn away. To say: “Mom, Dad, these are age, but to turn away from a much later,” she said. “It juststomach about leaving my house Of course, our kids became my issues, they’ve been simmer- patient in distress, as the law gives them the ability to put upfor fear I will run into them and friends. Played in the sandbox ing and festering all these years, demands with mental illness, dis- with so much more.” A similarwhat I might say. I pretty much together while she glowered at now it is time for me to unburden tressed her mightily. (The govern- option might have offered Maier-never want to see them again me. Of course, my kid bopped her myself.” ment has initiated a review of the Clayton the sustaining beacon heafter this. Do I confront the issue? kid with a toy truck and we had to But what, in the end, is the ban on mental illness, which is needed.Do I try to make amends or do I sort it out. … My point being: Bat- point? As you said yourself: “His due in 2018, but so far, it is not Maier-Clayton’s suicidesimply do as Oscar Wilde says and tling with neighbours sucks. parents will never change.” required to hold consultations behooves the rest of us – at least“always forgive your enemies; Whenever you battle with anyone Why not just get it all off his with patients or their families or those of us who believe in patientnothing annoys them so much.” you wind up carrying around a chest to you, or a therapist, or required to produce any recom- autonomy and think that medi-What should I do? terrible psychic load, and who friends or other family members mendations.) cine should be practised in the................................................................ needs that? or some combination? “I am my own saviour,” Maier- best interest of patients – to re-THE ANSWER In your case, it will go double, Bottom line: In your boots, I’d Clayton wrote in his final Face- spect the suffering of the mental-................................................................ because you’ll be battling with persuade your husband to forget book post, before reportedly con- ly ill. We can’t leave it toFirst, stop mowing my lawn with both family and neighbours all about going to battle with his par- suming an overdose of Nembutal, vote-wary politicians and risk-the Oscar Wilde quotes! I’m the rolled into one. ents – and basically forgive what- a drug he almost certainly averse medical associations toone who’s supposed to be throw- No. Better, far better, to figure ever it is and let it go. acquired illicitly on the Internet. campaign for an equitable MAIDing those around like confetti at a out a way to get along. Thenceforward: Lead by exam- That’s what happens when we law. After all, it took more thanparade. Basically, I think you have to ple. Even if they’re rude to you, rob suffering patients of hope. 20 years after Sue Rodriguez lost I’m kidding: That’s a good one. talk your husband down from the kill them with kindness. They kill themselves alone and in her Supreme Court challenge toActually, even though I’ve been a (metaphorical) ledge of his war- Have them over for a nice din- secret, often by violent means. decriminalize assisted suicide. Welifelong Oscar Wilde fan, I hadn’t like stance with his parents/ ner and just … be nice to them. Some of them botch it and end can’t wait for another constitu-heard it before, so thank you. neighbours. Why not? After all, as Oscar up in worse condition than tional challenge to recognize that Thank you also for the challeng- You don’t say how old he is, or Wilde said: “After a good dinner before they tried to end their not all suffering is physical. Thating, two-tiered question. Here at what his “issues” are, and of one can forgive anyone, even lives. struggle is Maier-Clayton’s legacyDamage Control HQ, we get a lot course I recognize there are some one’s own relatives.” Maier-Clayton’s deplorable sit- – and fighting for it might make a ................................................................of questions about family, and a things parents do to their off- uation reminded me of Amy de difference to you or somebodylot of questions about neighbours spring that are so harmful they’re Are you in a sticky situation? Send Schutter, a Belgian woman who you love. ................................................................– but yours is, as far as I can impossible ever to get over. your dilemmas to damage@glo- appeared in the 2016 CBC docu-remember, the first about people But my rule of thumb vis-à-vis beandmail.com. Please keep your mentary Road to Mercy. De Schut- Sandra Martin’s book A Goodwho are both, thus doubling the run-of-the-mill “issues” is: You submissions to 150 words and in- ter, 29, has refractory depression Death, which is shortlisted for thedifficulty and fanning the friction. can complain and whine and clude a daytime contact number so and a history of self-harm and Donner Prize, has just been released One of the reasons I think we moan about what your parents we can follow up with any queries. multiple suicide attempts. In the in paperback.

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ONE EVENING They are among the world’s most unrelenting truth seekers. In TWO TALKS their first live joint appearance, these renowned, award-winning journalists and authors will discuss the pressing need to apply TORONTO constant, critical pressure on an American president who threatens MAY 24, 6:30PM the very fabric of democracy, journalism, civil society and the truth. ROY THOMSON HALL 60 SIMCOE STREET

In this two-part Toronto event, our first discussion features Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of Democracy Now! ; Naomi Klein, journalist and syndicated columnist; Glenn Greenwald, Pulitzer-prize winner and co-founder of The Intercept ; and Jeremy Scahill, war correspondent and co-founder of The Intercept . Their conversation will be moderated by Hannah Sung, video and podcast producer for The Globe and Mail .

The second discussion features Matt Taibbi, author

of the recently published Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus and contributing editor to Rolling Stone, in conversation with David Walmsley, editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail, on journalism’s response to this ongoing circus and chaotic presidency. Taibbi’s book, along with the latest books from our other DAVID WALMSLEY speakers, will be available for purchase at the event. MATT TAIBBI MODERATOR

9 There are strolls in little

black dresses through anony-mous hotel lobbies, excursionsthat leave Jenner self-conscious,“a thinner version of Big Birdstanding out for the world to seeand snicker at after I pass.” Excruciating electrolysis ses-sions and hormone-therapytreatments are conducted insecret throughout the mid-80s.Later, Jenner gets more daring,changing into dresses and wigs ina car near the family home – andlurking paparazzi – in LosAngeles. With a low, masculinevoice, Jenner makes sure never tospeak out loud, except for oneStarbucks run to order a vanillalatte. Applying and removing make-up and false eyelashes, squeezinginto undergarments – the dailyrituals many women find oppres-sive, Jenner finds liberating andlife-affirming. But Caitlyn’s gla-mazon femininity has earned herfew friends in either the trans-gender or feminist camps. Whenshe gushed about nail polish inher first revelatory interview withDiane Sawyer, her critics wereaghast, noting that the strugglesof womankind extend beyondchipped nails. Others took issuewith Jenner’s wealth and her poli-tics: She’s a Republican who vot-ed for Donald Trump. Jenner’s memoir presents a per-son who is deeply conscious of Online bullying is worse than get-her critics, desperate to avoid ting bullied in person in highconfrontation and constantly school or grade school. The realapologizing – now to her trans- critical kids are the ones that suf-gender critics, but before that to fer from depression combinedher three wives and six children with trans issues. It is devastatingfor being “consumed and self- for these children, and a lot ofabsorbed” by a lifelong gender them take their own lives. Wedysphoria. have to do a better job of accept- “I am trying to learn as quickly ing the community. ................................................................as I can,” writes Jenner, who visitswith the families of bullied trans- You expressed disappointmentgender children lost to suicide. “I after Donald Trump revokedam very new to the community Barack Obama’s federal guide-and I understand some still per- lines for public schools to letceive me as an outsider. My own transgender students use bath-story, I believe, is worth telling rooms of their choice. You askedbecause the pain and fear I expe- Trump to call you about it. Didrienced was real.” he? The Globe and Mail spoke withCaitlyn Jenner from Los Angeles. Okay, this is where I’m at. I had................................................................ Top: Caitlyn Jenner is seen at talked to Trump during the cam-What does hiding the way you Glamour’s Women of the Year paign. We spoke on the phonedid for five decades do to a Awards ceremony in Los Angeles about a lot of these issues. Heperson? in 2016. Jenner’s new memoir, The seemed to be on our side. I was Secrets of my Life, is an inside look relatively optimistic at first.Everybody has stuff they have to into her past challenges, present When he rescinded the federaldeal with in life. My identity was struggles and future optimism as guidelines with Jeff Sessions andmy stuff for my entire life. In the a trans woman in the spotlight. Betsy Devos, I couldn’t figure outfifties and sixties, there wasn’t TOP: ELIZABETH LIPPMAN/THE NEW YORK TIMES; why he would do that. It was theeven a word for it. I didn’t know LEFT: RUVEN AFANADOR absolute wrong thing to do. Whywhy I felt this way. There was no even go there? We’ve got so manyinformation. more important issues to deal This continued all the way with in this country. Go deal withthrough the eighties, when I was those and just leave us alone.really struggling. I couldn’t even When I was at the inauguration,find a therapist. It was a life of he said he wanted me to comehiding and sneaking around and down and play golf with him – Ibeing embarrassed that my iden- just don’t know if he wants to gettity was such an issue in my life. hung up on pronouns. stunned by it but still not into it. upsetting to transgender people? beaten by a 67-year-old transIt’s not like you take two Aspirin What was it like for these wives woman. I would love to get fourand get plenty of sleep and wake Pronouns are extremely impor- – who clearly wanted their Gender-confirmation surgery is hours out on the golf course withup the next morning and you’re tant, and I get that. I try to do my husband Bruce Jenner back? an extraordinarily personal thing. him to be able to talk business.fine. It was extremely lonely. best to get all the pronouns right It’s not for public consumption That’s how a lot of things get................................................................ but even I’ve messed up. I was six I did open up conversations with and it’s not something trans peo- done. But if I went down now andAfter a lifetime of hiding, you months into my transition, and them, but it was the last thing ple really want to talk about. The played golf with him, the trans-are abruptly thrust into the spot- somebody working in production they wanted to hear. I can’t general public thinks it’s all gender community would justlight as a mainstream transgen- called and I said, “Hi, it’s Bruce.” blame them for that. I under- about what’s between your legs. destroy me. If I do anything now,der spokesperson. My daughters Kendall and Kylie stand that it’s difficult when you It has nothing to do with that. It’s it’s got to be behind closed doors. ................................................................How was that for you? have asked me, “What do we call transition. I respected if they about what’s between your ears. you?” I said, “ ‘Dad’ is going to were not into it. I get it. We’re The day after she has that sur- A trans friend of yours talksThe public and the press put me work for me. I’m your dad. I’ll better friends now with both gery, a trans woman is no more a about the first day she wakes upin a position where, all of a sud- always be your father till the day Chrystie and Linda. In a lot of woman than she was the day and goes to bed without think-den, I represented this entire you or I die.” Sometimes “Dad” ways, we’re fine. With Kris, it before surgery. She is just more ing once about gender. Have youcommunity, which is not the and “she,” they kind of get was a little closer and tougher for comfortable with herself. had that day? ................................................................case. I’m a representative for my messed up a little bit. But my her. Plus, we spent 23 yearsstory. daughters do a very good job. I together. People are pruriently obsessed I am very pleased at where I’m at................................................................ ................................................................ spoke to Kendall on the phone with your surgeries but also in my life. This woman has livedDisenfranchised transgender today and she goes, “Yes, ma’am.” You say that your stepdaughter with your sexuality. They want inside of me since I can remem-women take issue with you as a She’s getting it. Kim Kardashian was the most to know if you’re gay or straight ber. Maybe it’s time to let her livespokesperson because of your But I don’t get hung up on it. I sympathetic. As you’re chucking – post-transition. Where do you and give her an opportunity.privilege. You seem acutely know people are going to make Bruce’s clothes, Kim carts her stand on those questions? Bruce pretty much did everythingaware of your critics, writing out mistakes. favourite pieces away. In a clip – there was nothing left for him ................................................................the words “I am white. I am enti- from Keeping Up With the Kar- I have no idea. I’m not looking to to do. Let’s take little Bruce andtled. I have wealth” in a bold You explain that you consider dashians, Kris Jenner smells the date – men, women, anything. I put him inside and let her live. Itfont in the book. You face a trans yourself a trans woman, not a suits and cries, mourning that have no problem being by myself was very liberating to let her go.protest at one of your appear- woman. What is the distinction Bruce is gone. Do you empathize in my home. I’m set in my ways. I always want to wake up in theances and you distinctly remem- to you? with that? If I can find a really good friend morning excited about the day. Inber the protest signs. “You are down the way, I would have a the old days, when I was training,an insult to trans people,” one My road to womanhood has cer- [Chuckles] She can be pretty dra- friend. I would wake up in the morning ................................................................reads. How does it feel to be an tainly been different. I will never matic at times – on the show. I excited for the day to start. I hadoutsider all over again? have a period. I will never bear a understand that. It’s tough. But How are the challenges for trans weights to lift, I had workouts to child. So I’m very comfortable we didn’t go our separate direc- teens different today than what do, I had competitions comingIt hurts. If a trans woman writes with the words “trans woman.” tions because I was going to go you were facing, completely up. I lost that in my life for manysomething [critical of me], I have It’s the way my life has been. and transition. It had been 23 alone, in the 1960s? years. I couldn’t care about the ................................................................this terrible problem where I just years and things had changed. next day. In going through thiscall ’em up. I’ve done this on nu- There is clearly division among We both mutually decided that it My journey is a lot longer than transition, that excitement formerous occasions. I tell them, trans women, but there is also was best for both of us to go in many journeys of people today. life has returned. I got the old“You don’t know me. You don’t division between feminists separate directions for many rea- Today it’s a different world. The mojo back. ................................................................know my intentions.” They don’t about trans women. Some femi- sons. big change for our community ................................................................know where my heart is. Yes, I’m nists argue that trans women was the Internet. It opened the This interview has been editedwhite – can’t do anything about can’t just take on the label of The book was leaked and tab- entire community up. Trans- and condensed. ................................................................that. Privileged? My experience “woman” after enjoying the loids have been obsessing over gender people can now get a lotbeing trans is much different perks of masculinity all their its final revelation – your gender more information at a very young Follow me on Twitter:than theirs, I will admit to that. lives. What’s your feeling about reassignment surgery. age, and that’s good. It also hurts. @ZosiaBielskiBut I’ll never apologize for work- that?ing hard all my life and making a I had “it” done and that alreadygood living. That’s what this People criticize trans women snuck out and it’s been all over TODAY’S SUDOKU SOLUTION TODAY’S KENKEN SOLUTION ................................................................ ................................................................country’s all about. because you go from what society the Internet. The tabloids love We’re all trying to do the same treats as the powerful, masculine that, and so does the generalthing: to make it better for our role to what society thinks is a public. The book is about hones-marginalized community and for weaker, feminine role. From this ty, about getting all this weightthe next generation. There’s no standpoint, I think women un- off my shoulders and getting ridsense in criticizing anybody. I call derestimate themselves and the of it. That had to be part of it, butmy critics and say, “I’d like to get amount of power they have. I’ve I didn’t want to make it the mainto know you. Tell me your story.” always been with very strong part. My reasons for doing some-It changes people’s minds. women. thing like that are in the book,................................................................ ................................................................ and then I’m not talking about itAt the same time, you write Your first wife, Chrystie Scott, any more. I want to protectabout taking some of the “sanc- and your second wife, Linda myself and I want to protect thetimony out of the sails of the Thompson, did not take the community. ................................................................trans community.” You make a news of your cross-dressingpoint of noting that you’re not well. Kris Jenner was less Why is the fixation on surgeriesL6 • GLOBE LIFE & ARTS O T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L • M O N D AY , A P R I L 2 4 , 2 0 1 7

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When all-natural was all there wasEating homemade, free-range and local was the diet of the thrifty when I was a kid, Mary Jane McPhee writes.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

M y parents were the original

hipsters. Picture this: Dad,in his plaid flannel shirt, work hunting. And yes, there was venison and moose meat, too. So au courant now in high-end my folks could never eat this way today. My parents’ idea of parentingboots and hair pomade keeping dining establishments. was pretty cool, too. Their con-his pouf in place. Mom, in her My dad and uncles were avid cept was something like, “Outcigarette capris, floral kerchief fishermen. We were often treat- you go. Come back when thetied into her hair, Ray Ban avia- ed to fresh rainbow trout, lake street lights come on.” No orga-tor sunglasses and wedge san- trout, whitefish, bass, pickerel nized play dates or structureddals. Thing is, it was 1959. and a giant feed of smelts when lessons. Just get out there andEverything old is new again. they were running. play with real, live friends. So They were the couple you see Dipped in egg and flour and we roamed free and wide, cre-today in Whole Foods or at the fried in butter. Fresh churned ating our fun from what waspop-up farmer’s market in the butter. No dye. We ate smoked available in the natural world,park, picking out local produce salmon, cured by my uncle, his scrounged or invented. We ska-for their 100-mile diet. The recipe a secret. ted on our rink in winter. Weslow-food movement folks. Can you imagine the cost of skied on the local hill afterOrganic. Free from. Foodies. this diet today? Homemade pies walking there by crossing the Our food was all slow. All or- and cakes and cookies? Local Trans Canada Highway, climbingganic. And all from a 50-mile fruit, hand picked? Pails of the hill, strapping on our skis,radius. We grew what we ate: creamed honey? We were a fam- skiing down trying to avoid thebeans, beets, peas, lettuce, rad- ily of six. We ate a lot. The rocks and repeating till weishes, potatoes, squash, corn, irony being, we ate this way in couldn’t do it any more. Andzillions of zucchini, cucumbers, order to save money. It wasn’t then walking home. No adulttomatoes. even a choice. supervision. It was an everyday Vegetables were blanched and We rarely went up and down thing. Summers were unstruc-then frozen in our giant chest the aisles in the grocery store, tured and endless. The wordfreezer to eat all winter long. picking prepackaged foods. bored was never allowed in ourOthers were eaten fresh or Breakfast was oatmeal. Mom house.made into chili sauces and pick- mixed our milk with powdered I see my parents in the youngles. Any day of the week, mom SANDI FALCONER/THE GLOBE AND MAIL milk to make it go further. This families at markets and in thehad a batch of something going, was the diet of the thrifty. We parks. Everyone wants what’sdepending on the season of made mayonnaise. All-natural labelled. Locally raised. Happy would have killed for a Pop best for their kids. It seems as ifcourse. ingredients, of course. No addi- cows. In-house charcuterie? It’s Tart. the draw to a simpler life is one Crab-apple jelly to go with the tives or colouring. all the rage now. Dad made his So I chuckle to myself a little more goal for them to aspire toroast pork. Strawberry jam As for hormone-free meat, ev- own blood sausage and head when I see the advertisements – and it’s one more expense.made from the berries we erything we ate was raised on a cheese using the laundry sink in for fresh, local, organic food, One more thing to worry about,picked at our granny’s berry local farm. It wasn’t uncommon the basement as his work space. like it’s a new idea or some- one more stress. Kind of ironicfarm. Raspberry and blueberry for us to come home at lunch Our Italian neighbours brought thing. Restaurants that feature the way things go. Full circle. Ijam made from the berries we on a school day and see half a over Italian sausage made in house-made charcuterie, artisa- wish them well. ................................................................picked in prickly patches or on pig hanging in our basement. their basement. nal whole-grain baking, home-hot rocks. Chokecherries were Our dad and uncle would cut it Free-range eggs were picked made jams and jellies, hor- Mary Jane McPhee lives inmade into jelly. Relish was into roasts and ribs and chops, up at the farm on the corner. mone-free meats, free-range Stratford, Ont.made with corn and zucchini. wrap it in brown paper and We didn’t eat much chicken, but eggs. Don’t get me wrong, I ................................................................

And pickles! All kinds of pick- label it with a black grease pen- when duck-hunting season was think it’s great. It’s just that it’s Submissions:les. Bread and butter being my cil. Into the freezer it would go. on, we could be sure there taken on an uber-cool vibe, facts@globeandmail.com ................................................................favourite. Dills and pickled beets Bacon was smoked in a neigh- would be ducks in the freezer. available to those who canand pickled green beans. Oh, bour’s smokehouse. Our side of Or geese. Sometimes on a Sun- afford it – such as the hipsters We want your personal stories.and watermelon rinds. We had beef, raised on grass, was deliv- day after church, we would go in Whole Foods. The people try- See the guidelines on our websitehomemade ketchup and home- ered butchered, wrapped and partridge hunting. Or woodcock ing to stretch a dollar such as tgam.ca/essayguide

This deal occurred in a match It seemed to depend only on the a second diamond ruff. Bergen opening trump lead, and it was between the Netherlands and the location of the king of hearts. The then returned a low heart and, then a simple matter for Berkow- United States in 1993. It dramati- Dutch could not have anticipated when declarer elected to ﬁnesse, itz to win the ﬁrst spade lead and cally demonstrates how accurate the price they would end up pay- gained a third diamond ruff to return a second trump to secure defensive play can be as exciting ing for reaching a 50-50 slam. register an 1,100-point set! a two-trick set for plus 500. and proﬁtable as any offensive The slam was doubled by East, At the second table, with David Together with the 1,100 points effort. Marty Bergen. By convention, the Berkowitz and Larry Cohen of scored at the other table, this When the Dutch pair of Enri double requested an “unusual” the U.S. North-South, the bidding gave the U.S. a gain of 1,600 Leufkens and Beri Westra held lead. West, Eric Rodwell, had no went: points (17 IMPs) – virtually all of the North-South cards, the trouble selecting a diamond, but it attributable to inspired defen- bidding went as shown. East’s he was careful to lead the deuce, sive play. opening two-heart bid indicated a suit-preference signal suggest- It might seem that declarer a pre-empt in clubs, after which ing a club return. should lose only two hearts and the bidding was natural. Bergen ruffed and, showing a spade at ﬁve clubs, rufﬁng two The ﬁnal contract of six spades complete faith in his partner, un- of his losing spades in dummy. was certainly a reasonable one. derled his ace of clubs to obtain But Cohen unerringly found an